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

2. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Sophocles.

3. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Barbaroi.
(b) Juvenal.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Hesiod.

4. Where did Richard Arkwright develop the first modern factory based around a spinning wheel powered by a waterwheel?
(a) Cromford.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Oxford.
(d) London.

5. When did Septimus Severus rise to power?
(a) 59 BCE.
(b) 193 CE.
(c) 356 BCE.
(d) 295 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?

2. In whose honor was Virginia named?

3. Where did sugar originate?

4. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?

5. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?

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