QUIZ 2.

PositionOn international relief efforts and associations and contested presidential elections of 1876 - Brief Article

Use INTERNATIONAL, HISTORY

FILL IN THE BLANK: Write the answer that best completes the statement.

  1. One of the most exasperating experiences faced by relief worker Nigel Pont was setting up refugee camps for thousands of ethnic --, who were forced from their homes by Yugoslavia's former dictator, Slobodan Milosevic.

  2. The homeless people referred to in question one, above, were forced from their homes in the province of --.

  3. Ed Brown quickly learned that many of the vicious teenage rebels in -- had been forced to fight.

  4. A -- peacekeeping force is the only thing keeping rebels from overrunning the country referred to in question three.

  5. Kathy Mahoney's group, Doctors Without Borders, won the -- Prize for its relief work.

    SHORT ANSWER: Write the correct answer on the line provided.

  6. What caused the diseases suffered by many of Mahoney's Indian patients? --

  7. Why did C. D. Glin at first encounter resistance from the people he had come to help? --

  8. What was the name of the racial segregation practiced in South Africa from the early 1950s until 1994? --

  9. Historians believe the Electoral Commission established to decide the results of the 1876 presidential contest made an incorrect call for the state of --.

  10. The deal between Hayes supporters and a small group of Democra'ts ended federal protection of the citizenship rights of one group of Southerners. Which group? --

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

  11. Critics of international aid programs say Americans should work first to cure poverty, homelessness, and illness in the United States before trying to help people in other countries. How would you respond?

  12. Sometimes a government's sense of pride or fear of being seen as incompetent prevents it from asking for humanitarian aid for its people. In such cases, do international aid groups have a right to intervene to bring help to poor people?

  13. Write a slogan or motto for an international relief organization that expresses the group's mission or commitment to service.

  14. What do you think President Rutherford B. Hayes and Governor Samuel Tilden would...

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