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

2. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Crown prince.
(b) Minister of public safety.
(c) Prime minister.
(d) Interior minister.

3. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?
(a) Australia.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) The United States.

4. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?
(a) The League of Nations.
(b) The National Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(c) The Allies' international military tribunal.
(d) The UN General Assembly.

5. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Pocketbooks.
(b) Domestic political interests.
(c) Intellect and emotions.
(d) Foreign political interests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

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

3. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

5. 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?

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

7. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

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

9. 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?

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

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