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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 refuse them entry.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They report them to the Nazis.

2. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.
(b) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(c) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(d) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.

3. 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) Two million.
(b) Six million.
(c) Five million.
(d) Half a million.

4. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

5. What is the name of the leader of the Khmer Rouge?
(a) Hun Sen.
(b) Bao Dai.
(c) Idi Amin.
(d) Pol Pot,

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

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

8. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?
(a) Karadzic.
(b) Mladic.
(c) Vasiljkovic.
(d) Milosevic.

9. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

10. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.
(a) Enemy; traitor.
(b) Intellectual; enemy.
(c) Invalid; intellectual.
(d) Traitor; intellectual.

11. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.
(a) Football stadium.
(b) Pig farm.
(c) Mosque.
(d) Elementary school.

12. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?
(a) Armenian.
(b) German Catholic.
(c) Polish Jew.
(d) Russian Jew.

13. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it is too broad and therefore can't be used to target what country?
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) North Korea.
(c) China.
(d) Iraq.

14. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?
(a) Serbia.
(b) Croatia.
(c) Montenegro.
(d) Bosnia.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:

3. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

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

5. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."

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