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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people are officially recorded as having attended the feast for King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 95,674.
(b) 69,574.
(c) 23,003.
(d) 12,545.

3. What word refers to a Roman banquet?
(a) Convivium.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Symphonia.
(d) Barbaroi.

4. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Plato.

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) 1000 BCE.
(b) 6000 BCE.
(c) 4000 BCE.
(d) 2000 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" that what most distinguished the Greek approach to wine from that of other cultures was the practice of doing what?

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

3. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?

4. Who was Ashurnasirpal II's son seen in an obelisk standing beneath a parasol in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

5. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?

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