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

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

3. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Alexander the Great.

4. What is the boiling point of water?
(a) 78 degrees centigrade.
(b) 58 degrees centigrade.
(c) 56 degrees centigrade.
(d) 100 degrees centigrade.

5. The name Mesopotamia was given to the area between the Tigris River and what river?
(a) The Ganges River.
(b) The Amazon River.
(c) The Nile River.
(d) The Euphates River.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the first English settlers arrive in Barbados and find the island uninhabited?

4. Who is the god of agriculture and the king of the afterlife in Ancient Egyptian mythology?

5. What was the Ancient Egyptian word for beer?

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