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

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

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

4. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(b) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.
(c) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.
(d) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.

5. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?
(a) Solomon Talirian.
(b) Soghomon Talirian.
(c) Solomon Tehlirian.
(d) Soghomon Tehlirian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

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

3. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.

4. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

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

5. 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?

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

7. What was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?

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

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

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

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