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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. Who was Alexander the Great's father?
(a) Philip II.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Barbaroi.

2. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

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

4. Where did sugar originate?
(a) Polynesia.
(b) France.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Egypt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

2. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?

3. When did Rome sack the Greek colony of Syracuse?

4. The author notes in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" that what most distinguished the Greek approach to wine from that of other cultures was the practice of doing what?

5. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?

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