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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries?
(a) Diplomat.
(b) Missionary.
(c) Mercenary.
(d) Allegory.

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

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?
(a) Peace.
(b) Surrender.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

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

5. The Chichimeca War was a military conflict waged between Spanish colonizers against a confederation of Chichimeca Indians during what years?
(a) 1600-1665.
(b) 1550-1590.
(c) 1250-1270.
(d) 1620-1630.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word did the Delaware and Mahican Indians use for "Supreme Being"?

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. 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?

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

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