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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. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?
2. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
3. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?
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. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?
2. After escaping Germany in 1942, what did Jan Karski do with his findings gathered during his time undercover in the Warsaw ghetto and in a death camp?
3. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?
4. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?
5. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?
6. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?
7. 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?
8. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?
9. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?
10. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using the text to support your statements, describe and analyze the shifts in power and position between Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu in the three decades between Rwanda's independence from Belgium and the Arusha accords.
Essay Topic 2
Demonstrate how the Cambodian genocide illustrates the manner in which internal politics in the United States affect U.S. actions. Support your arguments from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the United States' initial response to each genocide covered in A Problem from Hell. Use the text to support your statements.
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