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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. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?

2. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

3. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.

4. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?

5. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?

3. In what way did Power see U.S. policymakers handle the genocide in Bosnia?

4. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

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

6. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?

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

8. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proposed by the United States as an international law instead of the UN genocide treaty, what was Raphael Lemkin's reaction?

9. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?

10. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the term "genocide" was coined, some welcomed it as a way to motivate any who used it to stand against the atrocities it represented; others argued that a word was just a word, and that using this word would not change official stances. Compare and contrast how the world reacted to the various acts of genocide expounded upon in A Problem from Hell's as you develop an analysis that explains which opinion history has, so far, proven to be correct.

Essay Topic 2

Using the text as backup, investigate why, during the postwar period, the Holocaust was rarely discussed in general American society and glossed over in, if not omitted entirely from, books and films of the period. In particular, focus on the role American Jews had in encouraging this approach toward the Nazi atrocities against their people and why they did so.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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