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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Foreign political interests.
(b) Domestic political interests.
(c) Pocketbooks.
(d) Intellect and emotions.

2. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?
(a) Hitler invades Poland.
(b) The Polish government wants to arrest him.
(c) France is seeking his extradition.
(d) Turkey puts a bounty on his head.

3. 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?
(a) Karol Wojtyla.
(b) Lech Walesa.
(c) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(d) Jan Karski.

4. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Crown prince.
(b) Prime minister.
(c) Interior minister.
(d) Minister of public safety.

5. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
(a) A disease outbreak among the Armenians.
(b) Armenian attempts to convert Turkey's Muslims to Christianity.
(c) Armenian revolt.
(d) Armenian birth rates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

3. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.

4. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?

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

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