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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Greek word refers to a form of ritual exhibitionism wherein the members of a drinking group would course through the streets in nocturnal revelry to emphasize the strength and unity of their group?
(a) Convivium.
(b) Komos.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Hesiod.

2. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?
(a) Sheep's milk.
(b) Cow's milk.
(c) Mare's milk.
(d) Goat's milk.

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

4. At the end of the first millennium AD, Cordoba was the capital of Arab Andalusia, which is now what region?
(a) Southern Spain.
(b) Southern France.
(c) Northern Spain.
(d) Northern France.

5. What word refers to a Roman banquet?
(a) Convivium.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Symphonia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?

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

4. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?

5. What was the Mongol capital where Mangu Khan installed a silver drinking fountain?

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