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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which human rights group had been keeping a close eye on the Yugoslavian situation since the early-1990s?
(a) Human Rights Watch.
(b) Amnesty International.
(c) Helsinki Watch.
(d) UNICEF.
2. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Treason.
(b) Mass slaughter.
(c) Rape.
(d) Mass suicide.
3. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Extermination.
(b) Racism.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Persecution.
4. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Pocketbooks.
(b) Foreign political interests.
(c) Intellect and emotions.
(d) Domestic political interests.
5. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?
(a) Serbs.
(b) Croats.
(c) Montenegrins.
(d) Bosnians.
Short Answer Questions
1. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it would be used to target the United States for its treatment of __________________.
2. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?
3. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?
4. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:
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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