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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 a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities?
(a) Conquistador.
(b) Debutante.
(c) Emissary.
(d) Missionary.

2. 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) Allegory.
(d) Mercenary.

3. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?
(a) Pharaoh Thutmose III.
(b) King Edward I.
(c) Pharaoh Ramses V.
(d) Pharaoh Sekhemib-Perenmaat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?

2. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

3. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were who during the 11th century?

4. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?

5. 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?

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