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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?
(a) Coerce.
(b) Treason.
(c) Ransom.
(d) Bribe.

2. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 68,000.
(b) 46,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 35,000.

3. What refers to both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of buildings or structures?
(a) Endography.
(b) Topography.
(c) Ecology.
(d) Architecture.

4. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?
(a) Pharaoh Sekhemib-Perenmaat.
(b) Pharaoh Thutmose III.
(c) Pharaoh Ramses V.
(d) King Edward I.

5. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1459.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?

2. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?

3. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?

4. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?

5. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?

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