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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of intervention do the United States, Europe, and the United Nations not deploy in Bosnia until it is too late?
(a) Humanitarian.
(b) Economic.
(c) Political.
(d) Military.

2. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?
(a) To commemorate the end of WWI.
(b) To commemorate the end of WWII.
(c) To draw attention to the Holocaust.
(d) To ask Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

3. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Sovereignty restrictions.
(b) Genocide exemptions.
(c) Amnesty clause.
(d) Definition of genocide.

4. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1987.

5. After the president's plane is shot down, Colonel Theoneste Bagosora and the Rwandan army take control of the country. What Rwandan tribe does Bagosora belong to?
(a) Watusi.
(b) Tutsi.
(c) Hutu.
(d) Pygmy.

6. How do most of the Kurds killed by the Iraqis die?
(a) Gas attacks.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Biological attacks.
(d) Mass executions.

7. Before Pol Pot dies in 1998, whom does he claim the deaths in Cambodia are the responsibility of?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Laotians.
(c) The Burmese.
(d) The Vietnamese.

8. When the Iraqi government orders Kurds to move into collective centers, any Kurd who remains in a prohibited area is:
(a) Tortured, then executed.
(b) Forcibly relocated.
(c) Considered a traitor and tortured.
(d) Considered a traitor and executed.

9. The Rwandan and Yugoslavian trials also prove that the ethnic violence and genocide was:
(a) Planned.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) A myth.
(d) An accident.

10. This country frequently cuts down U.S. criticisms of other countries by saying "a country that had not even contracted to the genocide convention had no right to lecture the Soviet Union on human rights."
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Vietnam.

11. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

12. When the safe area of Zepa is in danger from the Serbs, the Allies state they would only react with air power under what circumstance?
(a) If Gorazde was attacked.
(b) If Macedonia was attacked.
(c) If Zepa was attacked.
(d) If UN troops were attacked.

13. The town of Halabja becomes known as the Kurdish ____________.
(a) Nagasaki.
(b) My Lai.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Hiroshima.

14. Major General Dallaire is stationed in Rwanda to help make sure what power-sharing agreement that, until the downing of the presidential plane held civil war at bay, is observed?
(a) The Rwanda Accords.
(b) The UN Accords.
(c) The Arusha Accords.
(d) The Kigali Accords.

15. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?
(a) August 30, 1995.
(b) July 27, 1995.
(c) July 24, 1995.
(d) July 20, 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the three days it takes for UN soldiers to evacuate approximately 4,000 foreigners from Rwanda, how many Rwandans are killed?

2. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

3. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.

4. In what year is the first genocide case tried before an international court?

5. On what date do NATO jets begin bombing Serbia in an attempt to head off the looming genocide in Kosovo?

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