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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?
(a) Caffeine addiction.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Marijuana addiction.
(d) Opium addiction.

3. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?
(a) Coerce.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Treason.
(d) Bribe.

4. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?
(a) 60-70%.
(b) 70-80%.
(c) 40-50%.
(d) 80-90%.

5. What was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho and the United States in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory from 1866 to 1868?
(a) The Battle of Red Wing.
(b) King Philip's War.
(c) The French and Indian War.
(d) Red Cloud's War.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?

4. What was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558?

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

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