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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "Spirits in the Colonial Period".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?
(a) Rectification.
(b) Detraction.
(c) Aeration.
(d) Cultivation.

2. In what mountain region was wine likely first produced in the Neothilic period, according to the author in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Andes Mountains.
(c) The Himalayan Mountains.
(d) The Zagros Mountains.

3. Who was Ashurnasirpal II's son seen in an obelisk standing beneath a parasol in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Sargon II.
(b) Shalmaneser III.
(c) Esarhaddon.
(d) Tiglath-Pileser III.

4. In whose honor was Virginia named?
(a) Queen Mary I.
(b) Johannes Gutenberg.
(c) Arnald of Villanova.
(d) Queen Elizabeth I.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?

2. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

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

4. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?

5. When did the fall of Carthage occur at the end of the Third Punic War?

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