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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the president's plane is shot down, Colonel Theoneste Bagosora and the Rwandan army take control of the country. What Rwandan tribe does Bagosora belong to?
(a) Tutsi.
(b) Watusi.
(c) Hutu.
(d) Pygmy.

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

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

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

5. 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) Cyprien Ntaryamira.
(d) Habyarimana Cyprien.

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

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

8. Hutu gunmen and soldiers, within hours of the president's death, execute virtually all of Rwanda's __________ politicians.
(a) Independent.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Liberal.

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

10. Which human rights group had been keeping a close eye on the Yugoslavian situation since the early-1990s?
(a) UNICEF.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) Helsinki Watch.
(d) Human Rights Watch.

11. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.
(a) 15th.
(b) 1st.
(c) 40th.
(d) 39th.

12. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?
(a) To draw attention to the Holocaust.
(b) To ask Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
(c) To commemorate the end of WWI.
(d) To commemorate the end of WWII.

13. The ratification of the genocide treaty makes the U.S. ________ in its reactions to genocide.
(a) More cautious.
(b) Less cautious.
(c) More aggressive.
(d) Overly aggressive.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Serbia refuses to restore autonomy to Kosovo, what group rises up in opposition?

2. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:

3. 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?

4. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.

5. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

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