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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

2. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

3. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

4. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

5. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?

2. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

3. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

4. What was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?

5. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

6. What intrigued Raphael Lemkin about the Armenian genocide?

7. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?

8. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?

9. During his crusade to help European Jews, for what did Lemkin begin searching?

10. The Armenian genocide began when Turkey's interior minister decided that the Turkish Empire would target which group of subjects?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze, explain, and demonstrate, supporting your arguments from the text, how, in each of the cases of genocide that Power examines, both physical and cultural destruction were used to demolish and eradicate racial, ethnic, and political groups.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and explain why, as he worked to lobby for his genocide law, Lemkin had the advantage of a socio-political context that was receptive to the idea of international laws on crimes against humanity, including genocide. Use the book to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze Power's statement on page 514 about what the United States should do when it becomes aware of genocide and explain, in light of the reaction throughout the 20th century of genocide perpetrators to the measures countries took against them, whether or not, and why, you believe this level of action on the part of the United States will have any influence on future instances of genocide.

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