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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) One-third.
(c) Three-fifths.
(d) Three-quarters.

2. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Mass slaughter.
(b) Treason.
(c) Rape.
(d) Mass suicide.

3. Power argues that what is most surprising is that the U.S. has failed to give the genocides the ______________ attention they warranted.
(a) Moral.
(b) Diplomatic.
(c) Military.
(d) Legal.

4. The perpetrators of each of the genocides studied _____________ Washington and other Western countries' responses.
(a) Keep a close eye on.
(b) Make their decisions based upon.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Carefully analyze.

5. The term "class enemy" that is used by the Khmer Rouge often translated into which group of people?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Intellectuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:

2. A common response to why the U.S. stands idly by while genocide happens, according to Power, is:

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

4. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.

5. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

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