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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Spain.
(d) Turkey.

3. 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.

4. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Three-fifths.
(b) Three-quarters.
(c) One-third.
(d) Two-thirds.

5. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?
(a) The Jewish Solution.
(b) Occupied Europe under Axis Rule.
(c) Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.
(d) Hitler's Extermination Program in Occupied Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

11. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?
(a) They can't believe what they are hearing and seeing.
(b) They rush to recruiting offices to help fight against the Nazis.
(c) They don't care.
(d) They start massive relief efforts.

12. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Nineteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Eighteenth.

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

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

15. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
(a) New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) Nuremberg.
(d) Copenhagen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

3. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

4. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

5. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

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