Do not write on the test
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Ethnic Cleansing Quiz
Multiple Choice: For each of the following questions, bubble-in the letter that best answers the question.
“A genocide begins with the killing of one man – not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”
~Kofi Annan
1. What is Kofi inferring about genocide?
A. Genocide is the killing of people who have committed crimes.
B. Genocide happens when people who are good do nothing to stop people who are bad.
C. Genocide should not be simply defined because it is a complex issue.
D. Genocide is the killing of people simply because of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
E. Genocide is killing of people in power simply because they have worked hard to be successful.
2. Which of the following is an example of the genocide stage known as classification?
A. Nazi Germany signing the Non-Aggression pact with the Soviet Union.
B. Identification cards being required in Rwanda that stated if people were Tutsi or Hutu.
C. Nazi Germany requiring German’s to wear a yellow star if they were Jewish.
D. The Rwandan government declaring the people in Rwanda are all just Rwandans and that the
Tutsi and Hutu ethnicities do not exist.
E. Both B and C are correct.
3. Which of the following is not an examples of dehumanization?
A. Nazi and Japanese forces conquering neighboring countries to expand their empires.
B. Rwandan radio calling Tutsi people cockroaches.
C. Nazi propaganda comparing Jewish people to rats.
D. Japanese Lieutenant’s referring to Chinese people as less valuable than a dog or a cat.
E. Both B and D are not examples of dehumanization.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
~Albert Einstein
4. This quote does an excellent job capturing the message of the poem
A. A Poison Tree by William Blake.
B. Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye.
C. Still I Rise by Maya Angulo.
D. Lady Lazarus by Silvia Plath.
E. First they came… by Martin Niemoller.
5. The message the political cartoon above is sending is that the
A. communists in the Soviet Union imprisoned most of their political enemies.
B. country of Turkey often denies and tries to hide any proof of the Armenian genocide.
C. men with mustaches are good at sweeping and like tattoos that involve skulls.
D. Japanese military locked up many Chinese to silence them about the Rape of Nanking.
E. America assisted in the cover up of genocides in the Middle East.