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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
(a) War crimes.
(b) Legal standards.
(c) Financial standards.
(d) Genocide.

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

3. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) September.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) August.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. What issue plagues the genocide convention?
(a) State sovereignty.
(b) International unity.
(c) State prejudices against certain ethnic groups.
(d) Political ideologies.

10. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?
(a) Laos.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) Burma.
(d) Vietnam.

11. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.
(a) Cultural; psychological.
(b) National; cultural.
(c) Physical; cultural.
(d) Financial; physical.

12. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?
(a) The General Assembly defeates a resolution condemning genocide
(b) The General Assembly passes a resolution condemning genocide.
(c) World War II ends.
(d) The last concentration camp is liberated.

13. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
(a) May 15, 1919.
(b) May 19, 1915.
(c) May 24, 1915.
(d) May 15, 1924.

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

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. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

2. 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?

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

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?

5. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.

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