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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. Where did the magnetic compass originate?
(a) France.
(b) India.
(c) China.
(d) England.

2. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?
(a) Arnald of Villanova.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(d) Johannes Gutenberg.

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

4. Who is the Sufi scholar who is often attributed to the practice of making coffee berries into a drink?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Kha'ir Beg.
(c) Thomas Macauley.
(d) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.

5. Approximately when did writing first begin to emerge in Sumer?
(a) 2300 BCE.
(b) 1500 BCE.
(c) 3400 BCE.
(d) 4500 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the first English settlers arrive in Barbados and find the island uninhabited?

2. Who wrote the first printed book about distillation in 1478?

3. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. To what does "symposia" refer to in Ancient Greek culture?

5. When was the Society of Lloyds established?

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