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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 nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?
(a) Thomas Jordan.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Christopher Wren.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

2. What coffeehouse is described in Robert Hooke's diary from 1674?
(a) Weinstein's.
(b) Garraway's.
(c) Harry's.
(d) O'Connell's.

3. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?
(a) Bappir.
(b) Yuppir.
(c) Mahbid.
(d) Sappir.

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

5. When did the first English settlers arrive in Barbados and find the island uninhabited?
(a) 1627.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1635.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "News from the Coffee-House" in 1667?

2. Who wrote Works and Days in the eighth century BCE?

3. When did the fall of Carthage occur at the end of the Third Punic War?

4. The author notes in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" that what most distinguished the Greek approach to wine from that of other cultures was the practice of doing what?

5. When was A Broadside Against Coffee published?

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