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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. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?
(a) Serbia.
(b) Bosnia.
(c) Montenegro.
(d) Croatia.

2. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
(a) Split.
(b) Pristina.
(c) Sarajevo.
(d) Srbrenica.

3. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) Denmark.
(b) America.
(c) The United Kingdom.
(d) Canada.

4. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?
(a) August 28, 1959.
(b) August 29, 1958.
(c) April 1, 1984.
(d) April 28, 1950.

5. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) December 21, 1950.
(b) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.
(c) December 9, 1948.
(d) December 8, 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

2. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

3. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?

4. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?

7. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

8. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?

9. Which specific instance of genocide has American society committed itself to remembering and preventing a repetition of, which makes their slowness to react when genocide occurs disturbing to say the least?

10. What was the scope of the Nuremberg trials limited to as to what the tribunal was to punish?

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