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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Ban-Ki Moon.
(b) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
(c) Lech Walesa.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

2. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Amsterdam.

3. U.S. officials know _____ about the violence that is happening in each of the cases studied in A Problem from Hell; nevertheless, officials and the American public react with disbelief to survivor and refugee accounts.
(a) Very little.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) Much.

4. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:
(a) Race.
(b) Religion.
(c) Group.
(d) Ethnicity.

5. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) Armenia.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.

2. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?

3. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

4. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

5. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

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