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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. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?
(a) Sarin.
(b) Tabun.
(c) Mustard gas.
(d) Ricin.

2. In July 1995, Serb forces invade Srbrenica, which is considered a:
(a) Refugee camp.
(b) Autonomous region.
(c) Major city.
(d) Safe area.

3. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:
(a) Planned.
(b) An accident.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) A myth.

4. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?
(a) Juvenal Habyarimana.
(b) Cyprien Bagosora.
(c) Cyprien Ntaryamira.
(d) Habyarimana Cyprien.

5. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
(c) Lech Walesa.
(d) Ban-Ki Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1994, what measure does the UN Security Council take against the Serbs?

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

3. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?

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

5. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

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

3. 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?

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

5. When Yugoslavia began to break up into smaller countries in 1991, what dilemma was Bosnia thrown into?

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

7. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?

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

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

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

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