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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Telegraph.
(c) Television.
(d) Newspapers.

3. 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) Berlin.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) London.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

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

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

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

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

9. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.
(a) Berlin.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Vienna.

10. 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) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) African Americans and Japanese Americans.
(d) Native Americans and African Americans.

11. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
(a) He is executed in a death camp.
(b) He dies of a heart attack.
(c) He dies of natural causes.
(d) He commits suicide.

12. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) Canada.
(b) The United Kingdom.
(c) Denmark.
(d) America.

13. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.
(a) A great deal.
(b) Nothing.
(c) More than its fair share.
(d) Little.

14. 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) Armenia.
(c) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(d) France.

15. 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?
(a) Lon Nol.
(b) Viet Cong.
(c) Nol Rouge.
(d) Khmer Rouge.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.

4. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

5. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

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