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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 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?
(a) Bribe.
(b) Treason.
(c) Incentive.
(d) Ransom.

2. What was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558?
(a) Puritanism.
(b) Anglicism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Catholicism.

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

4. 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) 1771.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1602.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?

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

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

5. The Chichimeca War was a military conflict waged between Spanish colonizers against a confederation of Chichimeca Indians during what years?

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