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

2. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 5,000.

3. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1988.

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

5. In response to demands for his rule to end, Serbia's leader brutalizes what minority in Kosovo?
(a) Macedonians.
(b) Bosnians.
(c) Albanians.
(d) Croats.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the safe area of Zepa is in danger from the Serbs, the Allies state they would only react with air power under what circumstance?

2. In what year is the first genocide case tried before an international court?

3. Which country announces plans in June 1994 to send 2,500 troops to Rwanda in order to set up "safe zones" for Rwandans?

4. What form of intervention do the United States, Europe, and the United Nations not deploy in Bosnia until it is too late?

5. Officials at The Hague use the ______________ as a foundation for the court at which Slobodan Milosevic is tried.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Bosnian Serbs declared an independent Serb state, what measure did Western countries take in an attempt to stabilize the area?

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

4. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?

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

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

7. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

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

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

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

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