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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) Political.
(c) Economic.
(d) Military.

2. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:
(a) $1 trillion.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $100 billion.
(d) $10 billion.

3. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?
(a) The area's UN special reporter for human rights.
(b) Three Muslim men who survive a massacre.
(c) Journalists who are stationed in the region.
(d) Three Muslim women who escape.

4. Under NATO plan 40-104, how many troops are the U.S. committed to deploying to help with the extraction of European forces?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) None.

5. In the three days it takes for UN soldiers to evacuate approximately 4,000 foreigners from Rwanda, how many Rwandans are killed?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 20,000.

6. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?
(a) Somalia.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Romania.

7. 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.

8. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic re-alignment.
(b) Ethnic purification.
(c) Ethnic cleansing.
(d) Ethnic unification.

9. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:
(a) Somalia invades Rwanda.
(b) The Hutu gains control over most of Rwanda.
(c) Rwanda closes the U.S. embassy in Kigali.
(d) The RPF gains control over most of Rwanda.

10. 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 UN troops were attacked.
(b) If Macedonia was attacked.
(c) If Gorazde was attacked.
(d) If Zepa was attacked.

11. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1985.

12. Who is Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire?
(a) Commander of Rwanda's UN mission.
(b) Commander of Canada's peacekeeping forces in Rwanda.
(c) Canada's Secretary of State.
(d) Canada's ambassador to Rwanda.

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

14. From 1983 to 1988, the United States gives Iraq more than ____________ per year in credit so that Iraq could purchase American products.
(a) $5 million.
(b) $500 million.
(c) $1 billion.
(d) $50 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which responds with force to the Hutu's political assassinations, thereby reigniting a civil war that had been smoldering, belongs to which Rwandan tribe?

3. Which concentration center does British Independent Television gain footage of?

4. Which 1998 law signed by President Clinton calls for an international tribunal to be established to try those who committed the Kurdish genocide?

5. Which human rights group had been keeping a close eye on the Yugoslavian situation since the early-1990s?

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