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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. The earliest written documents consist of what from the Ancient Sumerians?
(a) Wage lists and tax receipts.
(b) Plays and novels.
(c) Poems and short stoies.
(d) Epic hunting stories.

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

3. How much of the human body is comprised of water?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 4/5.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

4. Who was Alexander the Great's father?
(a) Philip II.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Julius Caesar.

5. What word refers to a Roman banquet?
(a) Symphonia.
(b) Barbaroi.
(c) Hesiod.
(d) Convivium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

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

3. From approximately when does "The Ebers Papyrus" date?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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