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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 Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Juvenal.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Hesiod.

2. What beer created by the Incas was offered to the rising sun in a golden cup and then poured onto the ground as an offering to the gods of the Earth?
(a) Bappir.
(b) Sahti.
(c) Chicha.
(d) Pulque.

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

4. When did Septimus Severus rise to power?
(a) 193 CE.
(b) 356 BCE.
(c) 295 BCE.
(d) 59 BCE.

5. What was the Ancient Egyptian word for beer?
(a) Oasis.
(b) Hekt.
(c) Isis.
(d) Cartouche.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the first millennium AD, Cordoba was the capital of Arab Andalusia, which is now what region?

2. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?

3. Where did the magnetic compass originate?

4. What does the author refer to as the world's first literary work in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?

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

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