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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. When was Homer's Odyssey written?
(a) Eighth century BCE.
(b) Fourth century BCE.
(c) Sixth century BCE.
(d) Seventh century BCE.

2. What was Prince Henrique of Portugal also known as?
(a) Prince Henry the Bad.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Prince Henry the Beer Drinker.
(d) Prince Henry the Good.

3. Where did the magnetic compass originate?
(a) England.
(b) India.
(c) France.
(d) China.

4. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?
(a) 18,000 years ago.
(b) 12,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 3,000 years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?

2. What composer wrote a "Coffee-Cantana" satirizing those who unsuccessfully opposed coffee on medical grounds?

3. What ship did John Winthrop take to America in 1628?

4. The earliest written documents consist of what from the Ancient Sumerians?

5. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?

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