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

2. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.
(a) Enemy; traitor.
(b) Invalid; intellectual.
(c) Traitor; intellectual.
(d) Intellectual; enemy.

3. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(b) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(c) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(d) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.

4. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) Romanian Gypsies.
(b) French Basques.
(c) Armenians.
(d) European Jews.

5. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

5. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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