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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. Where were coffee plantations first successfully developed by the Dutch East India Company in the 1690s?
(a) Singapore.
(b) China.
(c) Java.
(d) Malaysia.

2. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?
(a) 980 BCE.
(b) 620 BCE.
(c) 870 BCE.
(d) 230 BCE.

3. When did the first English settlers arrive in Barbados and find the island uninhabited?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1627.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1635.

4. Approximately when did writing first begin to emerge in Sumer?
(a) 2300 BCE.
(b) 3400 BCE.
(c) 4500 BCE.
(d) 1500 BCE.

5. What was coffee known as in Arabic when it originated?
(a) Qafir.
(b) Java.
(c) Mocha.
(d) Qahwah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to a Roman banquet?

2. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?

3. When was the Tatler magazine founded?

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

5. From approximately when does "The Ebers Papyrus" date?

(see the answer key)

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