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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?
(a) 1459.
(b) 1549.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1601.

2. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?
(a) Caffeine addiction.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Marijuana addiction.
(d) Opium addiction.

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

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

5. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Micmac Indians.
(c) The Cherokee people.
(d) The Apalachicolas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of buildings or structures?

2. 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?

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

4. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, the daughter of the "Great Spirit" has two children, Teharonghyawago and who?

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