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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 600,000.

2. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Exportism.

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

4. Where was John Heckewelder born?
(a) London, England.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Bedford, England.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Micmac Indians.
(d) The Apalachicolas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

4. When was John Norton born?

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

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