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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
(a) He dies of natural causes.
(b) He is executed in a death camp.
(c) He dies of a heart attack.
(d) He commits suicide.

3. 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) Warsaw.
(b) London.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Berlin.

4. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) France.
(b) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(c) Britain.
(d) Armenia.

5. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?
(a) Albanian.
(b) Croat.
(c) Serb.
(d) Bosnian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?

2. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

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

4. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

5. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

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