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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 100 days, some ___________ Tutsi, as well as the Hutu politicians, are murdered.
(a) 8,000,000.
(b) 800,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 8,000.

2. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:
(a) Enhancing and facilitating the spread of Communism.
(b) Damaging the UN's interests and status.
(c) Damaging American interests and status.
(d) Enhancing Soviet interests and status.

3. Under NATO plan 40-104, how many troops are the U.S. committed to deploying to help with the extraction of European forces?
(a) None.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 25,000.

4. After the president's plane is shot down, Colonel Theoneste Bagosora and the Rwandan army take control of the country. What Rwandan tribe does Bagosora belong to?
(a) Tutsi.
(b) Pygmy.
(c) Watusi.
(d) Hutu.

5. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Genocide exemptions.
(b) Sovereignty restrictions.
(c) Definition of genocide.
(d) Amnesty clause.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.

2. By April 10, 1994, Dallaire becomes convinced that the Hutus are targeting anyone who had this in their possession:

3. By November 2001, how many of the fifty-three Rwandan defendants in U.S. custody have been convicted of genocide?

4. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?

5. Out of an overall population of 18 million Iraqis, how many are "problematic" (according to the government) Kurds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Four months after the war began in Bosnia, Helsinki Watch released a report on the situation. What details did the report contain?

2. When Kurdish leaders decided to side with Iran in the Iraq-Iran war, what was the reaction of the Iraqi military?

3. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?

4. What is an example of one of the many treaties President Jimmy Carter used his leverage to ratify instead of the genocide treaty?

5. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

6. Although President Reagan stated that he would endorse the genocide convention, what first step was he, as well as his administration, seemingly reluctant to take?

7. What Rwandan atrocity caused the definition of genocide to be expanded upon?

8. What would have been the consequences of including, within the U.S. version of the genocide treaty, a restriction on its jurisdiction in cases where the U.S. might be called?

9. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?

10. What use did the U.S. fail to make of the satellites it had in space?

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