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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Khmer Rouge evacuates all __________ before commencing their genocide.
(a) Laotians.
(b) Foreigners.
(c) Americans.
(d) Vietnamese.

2. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Native American relocation.
(d) Women's rights.

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

4. 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) Iraq.
(b) North Korea.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) China.

5. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?
(a) United States.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Russia.

6. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Lobbyists.
(b) International politics.
(c) Domestic politics.
(d) Special interests and civil rights groups.

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

8. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Pocketbooks.
(b) Domestic political interests.
(c) Intellect and emotions.
(d) Foreign political interests.

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

10. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?
(a) Congress.
(b) Human rights advocates.
(c) Filmmakers
(d) The media.

11. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
(a) Sarajevo.
(b) Pristina.
(c) Srbrenica.
(d) Split.

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

13. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.
(b) December 8, 1949.
(c) December 21, 1950.
(d) December 9, 1948.

14. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Samantha Moore.
(b) Peter Jennings.
(c) Elizabeth Becker.
(d) Walter Cronkite.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

4. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.

5. 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?

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