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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) August 28, 1959.
(b) April 28, 1950.
(c) August 29, 1958.
(d) April 1, 1984.

2. The term "class enemy" that is used by the Khmer Rouge often translated into which group of people?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Clergy.

3. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Native American relocation.
(d) Jim Crow.

4. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) The United Kingdom.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) Denmark.

5. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Politician.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?

2. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

3. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?

4. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

5. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

10. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

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