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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. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?
(a) Karski.
(b) Lemkin.
(c) Zygielbojm.
(d) Roosevelt.

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

3. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Mass suicide.
(b) Treason.
(c) Mass slaughter.
(d) Rape.

4. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.
(a) Forty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Ten.

5. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?

2. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

3. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

4. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.

5. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

5. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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