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

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

3. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Two.

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Syria.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Siberia.

5. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) December 9, 1948.
(b) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.
(c) December 8, 1949.
(d) December 21, 1950.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?

3. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. After escaping Germany in 1942, what did Jan Karski do with his findings gathered during his time undercover in the Warsaw ghetto and in a death camp?

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

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. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?

8. 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?

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. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

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