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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 __________________.
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.
(c) African Americans and Japanese Americans.
(d) Native Americans and African Americans.

3. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Treason.
(b) Mass slaughter.
(c) Rape.
(d) Mass suicide.

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

5. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Twentieth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?

2. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.

3. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."

4. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

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

(see the answer key)

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