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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture?

2. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?

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

4. 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?

5. What refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?

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