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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author refer to as the world's first literary work in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) Lysistrata.
(b) Gilgamesh.
(c) The Illiad.
(d) The Odyssey.

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

3. Approximately when did the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt arise?
(a) 18,000 years ago.
(b) 9,000 years ago.
(c) 12,000 years ago.
(d) 5,000 years ago.

4. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?
(a) The Tui na.
(b) The Pen ts'ao.
(c) The Zhōngyī.
(d) The Qigong.

5. What was the Ancient Egyptian word for beer?
(a) Cartouche.
(b) Hekt.
(c) Isis.
(d) Oasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mesopotamia refers to a region that corresponds to what modern-day country?

2. The author states in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt" that during the construction of the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the standard ration for a laborer was three or four loaves of bread and about how many jugs containing around four liters of beer?

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

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

5. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?

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