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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?
(a) Chickens and dogs.
(b) Sheep and goats.
(c) Cats and horses.
(d) Cows and pigs.

3. Who is the god of wine in Greek mythology?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Ares.

4. What popular drinking game in Ancient Greece involved flicking the last remaining drops of wine from a cup at a specific target?
(a) Kottabos.
(b) Convivium.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Komos.

5. Who is the Greek comic poet who is quoted in the opening of Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Alexander the Great.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

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

3. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?

4. What beer created by the Incas was offered to the rising sun in a golden cup and then poured onto the ground as an offering to the gods of the Earth?

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

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