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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Western diplomats suggest that Bosnia offer to its minorities?
(a) Human rights protections.
(b) Autonomy.
(c) Protection from genocide.
(d) Assistance seeking asylum in other countries.

2. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Sovereignty restrictions.
(b) Definition of genocide.
(c) Amnesty clause.
(d) Genocide exemptions.

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

4. 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 Arusha Accords.
(c) The UN Accords.
(d) The Kigali Accords.

5. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.
(a) 5,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 700,000.

6. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?
(a) Strom Thurmond.
(b) Ted Kennedy.
(c) Bob Dole.
(d) Hillary Clinton.

7. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.
(a) Senate Finance Committee.
(b) Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(c) Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(d) House Foreign Relations Committee.

8. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:
(a) Damaging the UN's interests and status.
(b) Enhancing Soviet interests and status.
(c) Enhancing and facilitating the spread of Communism.
(d) Damaging American interests and status.

9. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Lech Walesa.
(c) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
(d) Ban-Ki Moon.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. By November 2001, how many of the fifty-three Rwandan defendants in U.S. custody have been convicted of genocide?

2. The U.S. and Western countries believe the Serbs will try to ______________ Srbrenica, based on their intelligence.

3. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?

4. What happens on February 11, 1986?

5. When the safe area of Zepa is in danger from the Serbs, the Allies state they would only react with air power under what circumstance?

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