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

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

3. 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.

4. Who is the god of wine in Greek mythology?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Ares.

5. When did the first English settlers arrive in Barbados and find the island uninhabited?
(a) 1627.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1635.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?

2. When did Richard MacRagh-naill die from overconsumption of alcohol?

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

4. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?

5. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?

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