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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 250,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 500,000.

2. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.
(a) Famine.
(b) War.
(c) Natural disaster.
(d) Poverty.

3. The genocide convention receives U.S. support at the UN and many are ____________ its domestic ratification.
(a) In support of.
(b) Opposed to.
(c) Active advocates for.
(d) Undecided about.

4. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) United States.
(d) Russia.

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?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

2. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?

3. What form of intervention do the United States, Europe, and the United Nations not deploy in Bosnia until it is too late?

4. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:

5. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

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