"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Samantha Power
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"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Samantha Power
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) European Jews.
(b) French Basques.
(c) Armenians.
(d) Romanian Gypsies.

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

3. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Extermination.

4. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?
(a) Filmmakers
(b) Human rights advocates.
(c) The media.
(d) Congress.

5. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?
(a) Lemkin.
(b) Karski.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Zygielbojm.

6. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Native American relocation.
(d) Slavery.

7. 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.

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

9. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Six.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Two.

10. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?
(a) The National Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) The League of Nations.
(c) The UN General Assembly.
(d) The Allies' international military tribunal.

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

12. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) No.
(b) Some.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Very little.

13. 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 and African Americans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.
(d) African Americans and Japanese Americans.

14. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.
(a) Financial; physical.
(b) Cultural; psychological.
(c) National; cultural.
(d) Physical; cultural.

15. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?

2. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

3. On what date does the final country required for ratification ratify the genocide treaty?

4. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

5. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?

(see the answer keys)

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