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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?
(a) Montenegro.
(b) Bosnia.
(c) Croatia.
(d) Serbia.

2. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
(a) Sarajevo.
(b) Srbrenica.
(c) Split.
(d) Pristina.

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

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

5. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) Some.
(b) A great deal of.
(c) Very little.
(d) Zero.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.

2. 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 __________________.

3. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?

4. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?

5. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the concern that several U.S. policymakers had with the ambiguous language of the UN genocide treaty?

2. In coining the term "genocide," what did Lemkin write concerning those who committed it?

3. Which specific instance of genocide has American society committed itself to remembering and preventing a repetition of, which makes their slowness to react when genocide occurs disturbing to say the least?

4. In lobbying the UN General Assembly for a resolution on genocide, what kind of a law did Lemkin want the body to pass?

5. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?

6. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?

7. In what way did Power see U.S. policymakers handle the genocide in Bosnia?

8. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

9. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

10. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

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