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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "Coffee in the Age of Reason".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Arnald of Villanova.
(b) Johannes Gutenberg.
(c) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(d) Jabir ibn Hayyan.

2. What was coffee known as in Arabic when it originated?
(a) Java.
(b) Qahwah.
(c) Qafir.
(d) Mocha.

3. Who was the author of Gastronomia?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Archestratus.
(d) Plato.

4. Where did sugar originate?
(a) South Africa.
(b) France.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Polynesia.

5. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?
(a) 1717.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1669.
(d) 1647.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?

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

3. When did the Boston Tea Party take place?

4. When did the custom of drinking coffee first become popular in Yemen?

5. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?

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