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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?
(a) Habyarimana Cyprien.
(b) Cyprien Ntaryamira.
(c) Cyprien Bagosora.
(d) Juvenal Habyarimana.

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

3. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.
(a) Armenians.
(b) Minorities.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Christians.

4. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?
(a) As an international humanitarian crisis.
(b) As an act of war.
(c) As nothing out of the ordinary.
(d) As a military situation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.

2. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?

3. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

4. Major General Dallaire is stationed in Rwanda to help make sure what power-sharing agreement that, until the downing of the presidential plane held civil war at bay, is observed?

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?

(see the answer key)

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