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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. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 50,000.

2. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?
(a) Polish Jew.
(b) German Catholic.
(c) Armenian.
(d) Russian Jew.

3. The Khmer Rouge evacuates all __________ before commencing their genocide.
(a) Laotians.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Americans.
(d) Foreigners.

4. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Ethnic cleansing.
(b) Racism.
(c) Crimes against humanity.
(d) Genocide.

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Wisconsin
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Washington.
(d) Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.

2. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.

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

4. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

5. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

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

7. What did Lemkin do while interacting with officials and the public regarding the Holocaust that he thought would make them believe his, and others', claims about Hitler's atrocities against the Jews?

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

9. 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?

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

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