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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Ransom.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Bribe.
(d) Treason.

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

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

4. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1771.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?

3. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?

4. The Chichimeca War was a military conflict waged between Spanish colonizers against a confederation of Chichimeca Indians during what years?

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

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