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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Jan Karski.
(b) Lech Walesa.
(c) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(d) Karol Wojtyla.

2. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.
(a) Football stadium.
(b) Pig farm.
(c) Mosque.
(d) Elementary school.

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

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Syria.
(c) Lebanon.
(d) Iraq.

5. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?
(a) They rush to recruiting offices to help fight against the Nazis.
(b) They start massive relief efforts.
(c) They don't care.
(d) They can't believe what they are hearing and seeing.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?

2. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

3. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?

4. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?

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?

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