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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. 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?
(a) Khmer Rouge.
(b) Nol Rouge.
(c) Lon Nol.
(d) Viet Cong.

2. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Domestic politics.
(b) Lobbyists.
(c) International politics.
(d) Special interests and civil rights groups.

3. The genocide convention receives U.S. support at the UN and many are ____________ its domestic ratification.
(a) In support of.
(b) Active advocates for.
(c) Opposed to.
(d) Undecided about.

4. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.
(a) Football stadium.
(b) Pig farm.
(c) Mosque.
(d) Elementary school.

5. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.
(a) A great deal.
(b) Nothing.
(c) More than its fair share.
(d) Little.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

2. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

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

4. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?

5. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proposed by the United States as an international law instead of the UN genocide treaty, what was Raphael Lemkin's reaction?

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

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

10. 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?

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