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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "Spirits in the Colonial Period".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?
(a) Sauvignon blanc.
(b) Falernian.
(c) Chardonnay.
(d) Riesling.

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

3. When did the Mayflower set out for America?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1702.

4. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 700.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 300.

5. The great feast of King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" was to mark the inauguration of his new capital in what city?
(a) Harran.
(b) Assur.
(c) Mardin.
(d) Nimrod.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Revolutionary War begin?

2. The author states in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt" that during the construction of the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the standard ration for a laborer was three or four loaves of bread and about how many jugs containing around four liters of beer?

3. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?

5. When was the Molasses Act passed in London?

(see the answer key)

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