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

2. When was the Tang dynasty?
(a) 618-907 CE.
(b) 909-1002 CE.
(c) 569-623 CE.
(d) 709-1000 CE.

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

4. When did Rome sack the Greek colony of Syracuse?
(a) 169 BCE.
(b) 356 BCE.
(c) 120 BCE.
(d) 212 BCE.

5. When was the Dutch East India Company dissolved?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1795.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Buddhist monk that wrote a book about the health benefits of tea and is credited with bringing this knowledge to Japan in 1191?

2. When was Homer's Odyssey written?

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

4. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?

5. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?

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