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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. Who was Ashurnasirpal II's son seen in an obelisk standing beneath a parasol in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Esarhaddon.
(b) Shalmaneser III.
(c) Tiglath-Pileser III.
(d) Sargon II.

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

3. Who is the Greek comic poet who is quoted in the opening of Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Plato.

4. When did the Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1765.

5. The name Mesopotamia was given to the area between the Tigris River and what river?
(a) The Euphates River.
(b) The Amazon River.
(c) The Nile River.
(d) The Ganges River.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?

2. When was the Society of Lloyds established?

3. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?

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. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?

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