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

2. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?
(a) Political chiefs.
(b) Cage chiefs.
(c) Client chiefs.
(d) Integrated chiefs.

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

4. 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) Allegory.
(b) Mercenary.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Missionary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Smallpox was responsible for how many estimated deaths during the 20th century?

2. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?

3. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?

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

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

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