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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 nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(c) The Civil Rights Act.
(d) The Geneva Convention.

2. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Native American relocation.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Women's rights.

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?
(a) Milosevic.
(b) Mladic.
(c) Vasiljkovic.
(d) Karadzic.

4. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Slavery.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Genocide.

5. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
(a) May 15, 1919.
(b) May 15, 1924.
(c) May 19, 1915.
(d) May 24, 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.

2. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.

3. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

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

5. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

2. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?

3. 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?

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

5. What was Nuremberg's significance to the quest for an international law against genocide?

6. During his crusade to help European Jews, for what did Lemkin begin searching?

7. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?

8. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

9. 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?

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

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