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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. From approximately when does "The Ebers Papyrus" date?
(a) 1700 BCE.
(b) 1550 BCE.
(c) 1100 BCE.
(d) 1200 BCE.

2. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Osiris.
(b) Ra.
(c) Hathor.
(d) Iris.

3. Approximately when did pottery emerge?
(a) 8000 BCE.
(b) 6000 BCE.
(c) 2000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

4. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?
(a) Ribonuclease enzymes.
(b) Salivary amylase enzymes.
(c) Diastase enzymes.
(d) Lipase enzymes.

5. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Arnald of Villanova.
(c) Johannes Gutenberg.
(d) Michael Puff von Schrick.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. How much of the human body is comprised of water?

3. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?

4. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?

5. The great feast of King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" was to mark the inauguration of his new capital in what city?

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