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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many chemical attacks take place against the Kurds throughout Iraq?
(a) Under twenty.
(b) Over one hundred.
(c) More than fifty.
(d) At least forty.

2. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Romania.

3. What is the goal of NATO's bombing campaign?
(a) Autonomy for Bosnia.
(b) Milosevic's death.
(c) Milosevic's ouster.
(d) Autonomy for Kosovo.

4. How do most of the Kurds killed by the Iraqis die?
(a) Biological attacks.
(b) Mass executions.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Gas attacks.

5. When the Iraqi government orders Kurds to move into collective centers, any Kurd who remains in a prohibited area is:
(a) Considered a traitor and executed.
(b) Considered a traitor and tortured.
(c) Tortured, then executed.
(d) Forcibly relocated.

6. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?
(a) July 20, 1995.
(b) August 30, 1995.
(c) July 27, 1995.
(d) July 24, 1995.

7. Which concentration center does British Independent Television gain footage of?
(a) Helsinki.
(b) Srbrenica.
(c) Trnopolje.
(d) Sarajevo.

8. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?
(a) Juvenal Habyarimana.
(b) Cyprien Bagosora.
(c) Habyarimana Cyprien.
(d) Cyprien Ntaryamira.

9. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?
(a) Reza Pahlavi.
(b) Hamid Karzai.
(c) Saddam Hussein.
(d) Ali Hassan al-Majid.

10. On what date do NATO jets begin bombing Serbia in an attempt to head off the looming genocide in Kosovo?
(a) March 24, 1995.
(b) May 24, 1999.
(c) February 14, 1999.
(d) March 24, 1999.

11. Although Milosevic is initially indicted only for crimes against humanity, the indictment is broadened to include genocide in:
(a) Croatia.
(b) Kosovo.
(c) Albania.
(d) Bosnia.

12. Which 1998 law signed by President Clinton calls for an international tribunal to be established to try those who committed the Kurdish genocide?
(a) The Kurdistan Liberation Act.
(b) The Kurdish Genocide Act.
(c) The Iraqi Genocide Act.
(d) The Iraq Liberation Act.

13. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.
(a) The Ottoman Empire.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Yugoslavia.

14. Under NATO plan 40-104, how many troops are the U.S. committed to deploying to help with the extraction of European forces?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) None.
(d) 25,000.

15. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Mauthausen.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Bergen-Belsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. On April 23, NATO officials target the _______________ of Milosevic and his associates.

2. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:

3. Officials at The Hague use the ______________ as a foundation for the court at which Slobodan Milosevic is tried.

4. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?

5. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?

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