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

2. Who wrote the Principia?
(a) Thomas Macauley.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Sir Isaac Newton.

3. 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) Barbaroi.
(b) Convivium.
(c) Hesiod.
(d) Komos.

4. Who was Ashurnasirpal II's son seen in an obelisk standing beneath a parasol in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Tiglath-Pileser III.
(b) Esarhaddon.
(c) Shalmaneser III.
(d) Sargon II.

5. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?
(a) 18,000 years ago.
(b) 5,000 years ago.
(c) 12,000 years ago.
(d) 3,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is Sahti brewed?

2. Who is the god of agriculture and the king of the afterlife in Ancient Egyptian mythology?

3. What was Admiral Edward Vernon's nickname?

4. Where did the magnetic compass originate?

5. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?

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