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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "Coffee in the Age of Reason".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?
(a) Sappir.
(b) Bappir.
(c) Yuppir.
(d) Mahbid.

2. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?
(a) King Menkaure.
(b) King Mentuhotep I.
(c) King Tutankhamun.
(d) King Ramesses II.

3. On what ship was Richard Ligon aboard when he caught his first glimpse of Barbados?
(a) The Zypher.
(b) The Mary.
(c) The Achilles.
(d) The Elizabeth.

4. Where did Noah plant the first vineyard after being saved by the flood, according to the Bible?
(a) Mount Everest.
(b) Mount Kilimanjaro.
(c) Mount Shasta.
(d) Mount Ararat.

5. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?
(a) Barbaroi.
(b) Etos.
(c) Simera.
(d) Evdomada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to as the world's first literary work in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?

2. At the end of the first millennium AD, Cordoba was the capital of Arab Andalusia, which is now what region?

3. Where were coffee plantations first successfully developed by the Dutch East India Company in the 1690s?

4. In stories of the origins of coffee, the author describes a man named Omar who was condemned to die of starvation in the desert outside of what city in Yemen?

5. In whose honor was Virginia named?

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