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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?
(a) The UN General Assembly.
(b) The National Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(c) The Allies' international military tribunal.
(d) The League of Nations.

2. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
(a) May 15, 1919.
(b) May 24, 1915.
(c) May 15, 1924.
(d) May 19, 1915.

3. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?
(a) They put them in refugee camps.
(b) They report them to the Nazis.
(c) They refuse them entry.
(d) They grant them asylum.

4. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Washington.
(b) Wisconsin
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Michigan.

5. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Interior minister.
(b) Minister of public safety.
(c) Crown prince.
(d) Prime minister.

6. What is not yet invented at the time the Armenian genocide takes places and is therefore not available as a means by which to communicate news and information about it?
(a) Photography.
(b) Television.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Newspapers.

7. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?
(a) International political conference.
(b) International law conference.
(c) International humanitarian conference.
(d) International genocide conference.

8. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?
(a) Half a million.
(b) Five million.
(c) Two million.
(d) Six million.

9. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Laos.
(c) Burma.
(d) Cambodia.

10. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.
(a) Prevention; punishment.
(b) Definition; prevention.
(c) Punishment; prevention.
(d) Exemptions from; punishment.

11. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) A great deal of.
(b) Some.
(c) Very little.
(d) Zero.

12. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
(a) Politician.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Lawyer.

13. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?
(a) Zygielbojm.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Lemkin.
(d) Karski.

14. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
(a) Diplomatic intervention.
(b) Public awareness.
(c) Financial relief.
(d) Military intervention.

15. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 500,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

2. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

3. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?

4. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?

5. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?

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