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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word refers to a drinking horn in Ancient Greece?

3. When did Septimus Severus rise to power?

4. When was Virginia first established by the British as a permanent settlement in the New World?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is rum made? Where did it originate?

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

4. What cultural role did beer play in Ancient Mesopotamia?

5. What was the Molasses Act and how was it received by the American colonists?

6. How did beer reach Western Europe? When did this happen?

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

8. Where is the Fertile Crescent and how is this setting described?

9. What cultural role did beer serve in England in the sixteenth century?

10. What artifacts demonstrate the earliest of beer drinking and customs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of wine in Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures. Who had access to wine? What did wine represent within each culture? How and where was wine produced in these cultures?

Essay Topic 2

What ingredients are required to make tea? What equipment is needed? Where did tea originate? How did the customs of drinking tea spread?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the correlations between the slave trade and distilled spirits. Why were spirits used as currency in the slave trade? How did the production of distilled spirits factor into the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

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