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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on February 11, 1986?
(a) President Reagan nearly died in an assassination attempt.
(b) The U.S. Holocaust Museum was opened to the public.
(c) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty went up for a full Senate vote.
(d) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty was rejected in the Senate.

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.
(b) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(c) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(d) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.

3. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) A great deal of.
(b) Zero.
(c) Some.
(d) Very little.

4. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Sovereignty restrictions.
(b) Genocide exemptions.
(c) Amnesty clause.
(d) Definition of genocide.

5. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) London.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Amsterdam.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?

2. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

3. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

4. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:

5. This country frequently cuts down U.S. criticisms of other countries by saying "a country that had not even contracted to the genocide convention had no right to lecture the Soviet Union on human rights."

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