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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "Coffee in the Age of Reason".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?
(a) Aeration.
(b) Detraction.
(c) Rectification.
(d) Cultivation.

2. When was the Tatler magazine founded?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1800.

3. 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) Chicha.
(c) Sahti.
(d) Pulque.

4. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?
(a) Water of life.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Tea.
(d) Water of death.

5. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?
(a) Bappir.
(b) Pulque.
(c) Sahti.
(d) Chicha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the boiling point of water?

2. Where did France's first coffeehouse open?

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

4. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?

5. Mesopotamia refers to a region that corresponds to what modern-day country?

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