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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Idiom.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities?

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

4. 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?

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

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