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Violence : The Enduring Problem 3rd Edition (Test Bank) Chapter 10: Genocide, Exams of Criminology

Ryerson UniversityCriminology

By Alex Alvarez & Ronet Bachman Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Essay Questions

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Chapter 10: Genocide
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. During the twentieth century, which of the following has killed more people?
a. guns
b. wars
c. terrorism
d. genocide
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
2. 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
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
3. The first person to use the term genocide was ______.
a. Israel Charny
b. Helen Fein
c. Chalk and Jonassohn
d. none of the above
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
4. The Nazi attempt to eliminate the Jews is also known as the ______.
a. Holocaust
b. Armenian genocide
c. Rwanda
d. Bosnia
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
5. 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
Ans: C
nstructor Resource
Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3rd Edition
SAGE Publishing, 2017
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Chapter 10: Genocide

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

  1. During the twentieth century, which of the following has killed more people? a. guns b. wars c. terrorism d. genocide Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. 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 Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. The first person to use the term genocide was ______. a. Israel Charny b. Helen Fein c. Chalk and Jonassohn d. none of the above Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. The Nazi attempt to eliminate the Jews is also known as the ______. a. Holocaust b. Armenian genocide c. Rwanda d. Bosnia Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. 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 Ans: C

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

  1. 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 Ans: E Cognitive Domain: application Difficulty Level: easy
  2. 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. Ans: E Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: medium
  3. 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 Ans: E Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. The first concentration camp to be opened by the Nazis was ______. a. Auschwitz b. Sobibor c. Dachau d. Treblinka Ans: C Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. The Armenian genocide was perpetrated during _____. a. the civil war b. the second world war c. the Vietnam war d. none of the above Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  6. 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

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

Difficulty Level: medium

  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 Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. ______ 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 Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. 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 Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. Which is not a precursor to genocide? a. war b. arbitrary power c. democracy d. none of the above Ans: C Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

True/False

  1. It is sometimes hard to distinguish between genocide and related types of crimes, such as human rights violations and other war crimes. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. 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

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: Comprehension Difficulty Level: medium

  1. 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. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. 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. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. The United States has not had experience with genocide. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. 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. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. Irving Louis Horowitz, a scholar of genocide, identified four kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  6. Genocide requires a tremendous amount of planning and organization that occurs weeks, months, and even years before the actual killing takes place. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

Short Answer/Essay

  1. Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Provide examples to support your work. Cognitive Domain: comprehension Difficulty Level: medium
  2. Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence? Cognitive Domain: Comprehension Difficulty Level: medium

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017