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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(b) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.
(c) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(d) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.

2. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Peter Jennings.
(b) Samantha Moore.
(c) Walter Cronkite.
(d) Elizabeth Becker.

3. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Michigan.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Washington.
(d) Wisconsin

4. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Persecution.
(b) Racism.
(c) Extermination.
(d) Terrorism.

5. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Lobbyists.
(b) Domestic politics.
(c) International politics.
(d) Special interests and civil rights groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?

2. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.

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

4. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

5. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. After escaping Germany in 1942, what did Jan Karski do with his findings gathered during his time undercover in the Warsaw ghetto and in a death camp?

2. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?

3. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

4. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?

6. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?

7. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?

8. What was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?

9. In what way did Power see U.S. policymakers handle the genocide in Bosnia?

10. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?

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