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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Irony.

3. 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) Mercenary.
(d) Allegory.

4. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?
(a) The Aztec people.
(b) The Mapuche people.
(c) The Apache people.
(d) The Iriquois people.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?

3. 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?

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

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

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