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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 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?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

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

3. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?
(a) Lipase enzymes.
(b) Ribonuclease enzymes.
(c) Diastase enzymes.
(d) Salivary amylase enzymes.

4. Mesopotamia refers to a region that corresponds to what modern-day country?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Iraq.

5. 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) 2000 BCE.
(c) 4000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is Sahti brewed?

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

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

4. From what Sumerian city comes the oldest surviving record of the use of alcohol in medicine?

5. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?

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