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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?
(a) They report them to the Nazis.
(b) They refuse them entry.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They put them in refugee camps.

2. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.
(a) Enemy; traitor.
(b) Intellectual; enemy.
(c) Traitor; intellectual.
(d) Invalid; intellectual.

3. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?
(a) Siem Reap.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Penh Phnom.
(d) Phnom Penh.

4. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) Very little.
(b) Some.
(c) No.
(d) A great deal of.

5. The town of Halabja becomes known as the Kurdish ____________.
(a) Nagasaki.
(b) Hiroshima.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) My Lai.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?

2. The Khmer Rouge evacuates all __________ before commencing their genocide.

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

4. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

5. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?

(see the answer key)

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