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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Birds.
(b) Bears.
(c) Lions.
(d) Wolves.

2. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?
(a) Monosyllabic.
(b) Significant.
(c) Minisyllabic.
(d) Eloquent.

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

4. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Apalachicolas.
(d) The Micmac Indians.

5. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Exportism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?

2. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, the daughter of the "Great Spirit" has two children, Teharonghyawago and who?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?

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

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