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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Pagoda.
(b) Attawam.
(c) Tipi.
(d) Wigwam.

2. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?
(a) Variola incubus.
(b) Variola sine eruptione.
(c) Variola major.
(d) Variola minor.

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

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A bear.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A lion.

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

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 first text reprinted in Chapter 3 is a "Act of Submission" from what year?by the Narrangansett Indians

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?

4. The Indian Nonintercourse Act is the collective name given to how many statutes passed by the United States Congress?

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

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