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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Genocide.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Civil war.

3. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) Armenians.
(b) Romanian Gypsies.
(c) European Jews.
(d) French Basques.

4. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.
(a) Ignores, denies.
(b) Acknowledges, denies.
(c) Ignores, acknowledges.
(d) Denies, denies.

5. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?
(a) He calls for a vote on the treaty every day on the Senate floor.
(b) He travels the world and made documentaries exposing acts of genocide.
(c) He hosts a daily national talk show about genocide.
(d) He gives a daily speech on genocide on the Senate floor.

6. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Racism.
(b) Crimes against humanity.
(c) Ethnic cleansing.
(d) Genocide.

7. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?
(a) Solomon Talirian.
(b) Soghomon Tehlirian.
(c) Soghomon Talirian.
(d) Solomon Tehlirian.

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

9. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?
(a) Australia.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) The United States.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

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

11. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Nine.
(d) Nineteen.

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

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

14. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?
(a) April 28, 1950.
(b) April 1, 1984.
(c) August 28, 1959.
(d) August 29, 1958.

15. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it would be used to target the United States for its treatment of __________________.
(a) African Americans and Japanese Americans.
(b) Native Americans and African Americans.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.

2. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?

3. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

4. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.

5. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

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