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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. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.
(a) Judaism.
(b) Insurrection.
(c) Islam.
(d) Atrocity.

2. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) August.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) September.

3. On what date does the final country required for ratification ratify the genocide treaty?
(a) December 9, 1948.
(b) November 7, 1950.
(c) December 11, 1946.
(d) October 16, 1950.

4. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?
(a) The United States.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Australia.

5. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
(a) War crimes.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Legal standards.
(d) Financial standards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

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

4. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?

5. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?

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

4. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?

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

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

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

8. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

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

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

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