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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 is the boiling point of alcohol?
(a) 100 degrees centigrade.
(b) 98 degrees centigrade.
(c) 56 degrees centigrade.
(d) 78 degrees centigrade.

2. What German doctor published a tract in 1635 denouncing tea?
(a) Simon Pauli.
(b) Edmund Waller.
(c) Thomas Jordan.
(d) Eisai.

3. When did the Sung dynasty rule in China?
(a) 1325-1532.
(b) 895-903.
(c) 960-1279.
(d) 1658-1723.

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

5. When was the Tang dynasty?
(a) 569-623 CE.
(b) 709-1000 CE.
(c) 618-907 CE.
(d) 909-1002 CE.

Short Answer Questions

1. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?

2. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?

3. Who was Alexander the Great's father?

4. Where did Jacob of Lebanon open the first coffeeshop in western Europe?

5. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?

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