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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. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?
(a) April 1, 1984.
(b) August 29, 1958.
(c) August 28, 1959.
(d) April 28, 1950.

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

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

4. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Geneva Convention.
(c) The Civil Rights Act.
(d) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

5. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?
(a) May 15, 1924.
(b) May 19, 1915.
(c) May 24, 1915.
(d) May 15, 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?

2. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

4. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?

5. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.

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 kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

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

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

6. 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?

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

9. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?

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

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