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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. How much of the human body is comprised of water?
(a) 4/5.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 1/3.

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

3. What is the boiling point of alcohol?
(a) 78 degrees centigrade.
(b) 56 degrees centigrade.
(c) 100 degrees centigrade.
(d) 98 degrees centigrade.

4. The pictogram from a seal found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia that shows two figures drinking beer through straws dates to approximately what age?
(a) 2000 BCE.
(b) 1000 BCE.
(c) 4000 BCE.
(d) 6000 BCE.

5. When did the Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1789.

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. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?

3. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?

4. Who was Alexander the Great's father?

5. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?

(see the answer key)

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