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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. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?
(a) 1200 BCE.
(b) 900 BCE.
(c) 1600 BCE.
(d) 2400 BCE.

2. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 25,000 years ago.
(d) 5,000 years ago.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?

2. Approximately when did writing first begin to emerge in Sumer?

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

4. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?

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

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