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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.
(a) Prevention; punishment.
(b) Definition; prevention.
(c) Punishment; prevention.
(d) Exemptions from; punishment.

3. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Domestic politics.
(b) Special interests and civil rights groups.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) International politics.

4. 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) Karol Wojtyla.
(c) Lech Walesa.
(d) Szmul Zygielbojm.

5. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?
(a) Australia.
(b) Bulgaria.
(c) The United States.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

6. The term "class enemy" that is used by the Khmer Rouge often translated into which group of people?
(a) Clergy.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Intellectuals.

7. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.
(a) Warmongering.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Genocide.
(d) War crimes.

8. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Peter Jennings.
(b) Elizabeth Becker.
(c) Samantha Moore.
(d) Walter Cronkite.

9. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?
(a) Phnom Penh.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Siem Reap.
(d) Penh Phnom.

10. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) America.
(b) The United Kingdom.
(c) Canada.
(d) Denmark.

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

12. 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) Armenia.
(c) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(d) Britain.

13. What issue plagues the genocide convention?
(a) Political ideologies.
(b) State sovereignty.
(c) State prejudices against certain ethnic groups.
(d) International unity.

14. On what date does the final country required for ratification ratify the genocide treaty?
(a) December 9, 1948.
(b) November 7, 1950.
(c) December 11, 1946.
(d) October 16, 1950.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

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

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

4. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

5. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?

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