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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. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.
(a) 700,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 150,000.

2. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?
(a) Ali Hassan al-Majid.
(b) Hamid Karzai.
(c) Reza Pahlavi.
(d) Saddam Hussein.

3. On February 18, 1986:
(a) The Senate amends the ratification resolution.
(b) The Senate rejects the ratification resolution.
(c) The Senate votes on the ratification resolution.
(d) The Senate adopts the ratification resolution.

4. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?
(a) USA Today.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Washington Post.

5. The U.S. and Western countries believe the Serbs will try to ______________ Srbrenica, based on their intelligence.
(a) Besiege.
(b) Neutralize.
(c) Avoid.
(d) Destroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?

2. Which Serb is in custody for carrying out the Srebrenica atrocities?

3. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:

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

5. What do Western diplomats suggest that Bosnia offer to its minorities?

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

3. Why did Rwanda actually vote against setting up its war crimes tribunal?

4. Although Rwanda held one of the seats on the UN Security Council, what measures that the Council could have taken against the Hutus' genocide were never suggested?

5. What was significant about the UN war crimes tribunal's indictment of Milosevic for crimes against humanity?

6. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?

7. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?

8. What were the terms of the agreement that Milosevic signed on June 3, 1999, after his surrender?

9. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?

10. After the Hutu government began eliminating the Tutsi, what did the U.S. focus on instead of intervening to stop the genocide?

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