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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) Pulque.
(b) Sahti.
(c) Bappir.
(d) Chicha.

2. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?
(a) Chickens and dogs.
(b) Cats and horses.
(c) Cows and pigs.
(d) Sheep and goats.

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

4. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Three liters.
(b) Two liters.
(c) One gallon.
(d) One liter.

5. Who was the author of Gastronomia?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Archestratus.
(d) Hesiod.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Greek comic poet who is quoted in the opening of Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

2. What is the boiling point of water?

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

4. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

5. Where did Noah plant the first vineyard after being saved by the flood, according to the Bible?

(see the answer key)

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