Deck 10: Genocide

Question 1

______ societies describes those places where individuals are tortured and returned to the society as a warning about the dangers of opposition to the government.In these communities,human bodies are the medium upon which the state communicates its ideas about conformity

A) torture
B) harassment
C) genocidal
D) retributive

Answer 1

A

Question 2

During the Armenian genocide,the first victims were ______.

A) the intelligentsia and leaders
B) students
C) international tourists
D) women and children
E) none of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

R.J.Rummel calculates that during the Holocaust,the Nazis killed approximately __________________ million people through genocide,forced labors,starvation,experiments,and various other means.

A) 55
B) 28
C) 30
D) 5
E) none of the above

Answer 3

E

Question 4

______ societies are characterized by a willingness to accept difference even if it isn't approved of.

A) developmental
B) traditional shame
C) permissive
D) tolerant

Question 5

The successful attempt by a dominant group,vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power,to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision of genocide was a definition of genocide presented by ______.

A) Israel Charny
B) Helen Fein
C) Robert Melson
D) Vahakn Dadrian

Question 6

Which of the following is a reason why genocide is hard to define?

A) Genocide only includes women.
B) Genocide only includes children.
C) Genocide only happens outside of the United States.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 7

The policy of taking children away from their families and educating them to be "good citizens," thereby stripping them of their native culture is referred to as ______.

A) sterilization
B) integration
C) forced slavery
D) none of the above

Question 8

______ genocides involve situations in which a government uses genocide as a weapon against rivals for political power.

A) developmental
B) rationale
C) despotic
D) deological

Question 9

Who were the perpetrators of the Bosnian genocide that lasted from 1992 to 1995?

A) Bosnian Serbs
B) Ethnic Chams
C) Radical Muslims
D) none of the above

Question 10

The first concentration camp to be opened by the Nazis was ______.

A) Auschwitz
B) Sobibor
C) Dachau
D) Treblinka

Question 11

Which is not a precursor to genocide?

A) war
B) arbitrary power
C) democracy
D) none of the above

Question 12

The Nazi attempt to eliminate the Jews is also known as the ______.

A) Holocaust
B) Armenian genocide
C) Rwanda
D) Bosnia

Question 13

The Armenian genocide was perpetrated during _____.

A) the civil war
B) the second world war
C) the Vietnam war
D) none of the above

Question 14

During the twentieth century,which of the following has killed more people?

A) guns
B) wars
C) terrorism
D) genocide

Question 15

Which of the following is not one of the acts considered to be genocide by the U.N.?

A) killing members of the group
B) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
C) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
D) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
E) all are considered to be genocide according to the U.N.

Question 16

Which of the following groups is not included in the United Nations definition of genocide?

A) national
B) ethnic
C) political
D) racial
E) religious

Question 17

In ______,the Fourth International Russell Tribunal of 1979 found that the government was perpetrating genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Amazon headwaters.The violence included navy riverboats machine-gunning the banks of the rivers and massacres perpetrated by government forces and private citizens alike.

A) Colombia
B) Sudan
C) Brazil
D) none of the above

Question 18

The first person to use the term genocide was ______.

A) Israel Charny
B) Helen Fein
C) Chalk and Jonassohn
D) none of the above

Question 19

The political scientist R.J.Rummel has suggested that genocide and similar types of mass violence are crimes perpetrated almost exclusively by ______ states.

A) republic
B) democratic
C) dictatorship
D) totalitarian

Question 20

For an atrocity to qualify as genocide,the ______ acts must have been specifically meant to wipe out a group.

A) command
B) criminal
C) inductive
D) destructive

Question 21

Genocide requires a tremendous amount of planning and organization that occurs weeks,months,and even years before the actual killing takes place.

Question 22

Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence?

Question 23

Discuss three of genocide scholar Irving Louis Horowitz's kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.

Question 24

Irving Louis Horowitz,a scholar of genocide,identified four kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.

Question 25

It is clear that genocide has exacted a terrible cost in human life and suffering during the twentieth century and has continued to do so in the twenty-first century,as illustrated by the genocide in the Darfur region of Rwanda.

Question 26

The word utopia comes from Thomas More,the English lawyer who,in his book Utopia,described a rationally organized society in which all property was communally held.

Question 27

It is sometimes hard to distinguish between genocide and related types of crimes,such as human rights violations and other war crimes.

Question 28

The United Nations defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,in whole or in part,a national,ethnic,racial,or religious group,such as (a)Killing members of the group; (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c)Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Question 29

The practice of sending American Indian children to boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their language,practice their religion,or otherwise engage in aspects of their traditional culture can also be defined as genocide.

Question 30

The United States has not had experience with genocide.

Question 31

Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Provide examples to support your work.