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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pictogram from a seal found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia that shows two figures drinking beer through straws dates to approximately what age?
(a) 6000 BCE.
(b) 1000 BCE.
(c) 2000 BCE.
(d) 4000 BCE.

2. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?
(a) Mahbid.
(b) Bappir.
(c) Sappir.
(d) Yuppir.

3. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?
(a) Sahti.
(b) Pulque.
(c) Chicha.
(d) Bappir.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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