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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Major General Dallaire is stationed in Rwanda to help make sure what power-sharing agreement that, until the downing of the presidential plane held civil war at bay, is observed?
(a) The Rwanda Accords.
(b) The Kigali Accords.
(c) The Arusha Accords.
(d) The UN Accords.

2. On April 23, NATO officials target the _______________ of Milosevic and his associates.
(a) Businesses and families.
(b) Personal property and businesses.
(c) Families and friends.
(d) Finances and businesses.

3. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?
(a) The Rwandan genocide.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) The Khmer Rouge atrocities.
(d) The Armenian genocide.

4. In 100 days, some ___________ Tutsi, as well as the Hutu politicians, are murdered.
(a) 8,000,000.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 800,000.
(d) 80,000.

5. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic cleansing.
(b) Ethnic unification.
(c) Ethnic re-alignment.
(d) Ethnic purification.

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

7. In 1994, what measure does the UN Security Council take against the Serbs?
(a) It invokes the Genocide Convention.
(b) It invokes the Genocide Convention and creates a criminal tribunal.
(c) It sends UN peacekeepers to the region.
(d) It creates a criminal tribunal.

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

9. From 1983 to 1988, the United States gives Iraq more than ____________ per year in credit so that Iraq could purchase American products.
(a) $50 million.
(b) $1 billion.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $500 million.

10. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?
(a) Nour al-Maliki.
(b) Tariq Aziz.
(c) Saddam Hussein.
(d) Ali Hassan al-Majid.

11. Which country announces plans in June 1994 to send 2,500 troops to Rwanda in order to set up "safe zones" for Rwandans?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Germany.
(c) Somalia.
(d) France.

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

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

14. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which responds with force to the Hutu's political assassinations, thereby reigniting a civil war that had been smoldering, belongs to which Rwandan tribe?
(a) Tutsi.
(b) Maasai.
(c) Hutu.
(d) Zulu.

15. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?
(a) The area's UN special reporter for human rights.
(b) Three Muslim women who escape.
(c) Journalists who are stationed in the region.
(d) Three Muslim men who survive a massacre.

Short Answer Questions

1. Senator Bob Dole introduces a bill in the U.S. Senate that calls for what measure to be taken in order to help the Muslims in the Balkans?

2. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.

3. What happens on February 11, 1986?

4. Which 1998 law signed by President Clinton calls for an international tribunal to be established to try those who committed the Kurdish genocide?

5. On ______ the UN war crimes tribunal indicts Milosevic for crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

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