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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Alexander the Great.

3. What is the boiling point of water?
(a) 100 degrees centigrade.
(b) 78 degrees centigrade.
(c) 56 degrees centigrade.
(d) 58 degrees centigrade.

4. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?
(a) Diastase enzymes.
(b) Lipase enzymes.
(c) Ribonuclease enzymes.
(d) Salivary amylase enzymes.

5. Who wrote Works and Days in the eighth century BCE?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?

3. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

4. Where did Noah plant the first vineyard after being saved by the flood, according to the Bible?

5. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the customary way to drink wine in Greek culture? How did the Greeks perceive other customs of consuming wine?

2. Describe the basic scientific process of distillation.

3. How did wine lead to Marcus Antonius's death?

4. How is whiskey made? When and where did it orignate?

5. What are the basic components of wine and how it it processed?

6. Describe the death of King Charles II of Navarre. Who or what caused his death?

7. Where was Ancient Cordoba located? How is it described?

8. Describe the basic components that make up beer.

9. Why were beer and wine regarded as class distinctions in ancient civilizations?

10. What role did distilled spirits play in the emergence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

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