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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Idiom.
(d) Metaphor.

2. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

3. What refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Irony.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Literacy.

4. Smallpox was responsible for how many estimated deaths during the 20th century?
(a) 300-500 million.
(b) 100-200 million.
(c) 600-800 million.
(d) 100-300 million.

5. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?
(a) Irrigation.
(b) Ecology.
(c) Aqualogy.
(d) Contraptualism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?

3. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?

4. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?

5. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?

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