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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 enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?
(a) Ribonuclease enzymes.
(b) Diastase enzymes.
(c) Salivary amylase enzymes.
(d) Lipase enzymes.

2. When did the fall of Carthage occur at the end of the Third Punic War?
(a) 146 BCE.
(b) 212 BCE.
(c) 120 BCE.
(d) 368 BCE.

3. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?
(a) 3150 BCE.
(b) 1600 BCE.
(c) 4500 BCE.
(d) 3900 BCE.

4. In what mountain region was wine likely first produced in the Neothilic period, according to the author in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) The Zagros Mountains.
(b) The Alps.
(c) The Andes Mountains.
(d) The Himalayan Mountains.

5. When did Alexander the Great die from a mysterious illness?
(a) 235 BCE.
(b) 323 BCE.
(c) 629 BCE.
(d) 159 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?

2. The name Mesopotamia was given to the area between the Tigris River and what river?

3. Who was Alexander the Great's father?

4. How much of the human body is comprised of water?

5. In what is Sahti brewed?

(see the answer key)

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