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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 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) Pygmy.
(b) Hutu.
(c) Tutsi.
(d) Watusi.

2. In what year is the first genocide case tried before an international court?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2003.

3. Out of an overall population of 18 million Iraqis, how many are "problematic" (according to the government) Kurds?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 8 million.

4. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?
(a) As a military situation.
(b) As nothing out of the ordinary.
(c) As an international humanitarian crisis.
(d) As an act of war.

5. Which country announces plans in June 1994 to send 2,500 troops to Rwanda in order to set up "safe zones" for Rwandans?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Somalia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In July 1995, Serb forces invade Srbrenica, which is considered a:

2. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

3. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?

4. This country frequently cuts down U.S. criticisms of other countries by saying "a country that had not even contracted to the genocide convention had no right to lecture the Soviet Union on human rights."

5. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What consequence did the State Department threaten against the Serbian soldiers?

4. 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?

5. What was the human and geographic toll of the Serbs' genocide against the Bosnians, in terms of people killed, people displaced, and partitioning of Bosnian territory?

6. What were the conditions under which Milosevic was delivered to The Hague for his trial?

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

8. 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?

9. While Mladic's men were killing the men and boys living in Srbrenica, what was done with the women, children, and elderly?

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

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