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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. In stories of the origins of coffee, the author describes a man named Omar who was condemned to die of starvation in the desert outside of what city in Yemen?
(a) Sana'a.
(b) Mocha.
(c) Taiz.
(d) Aden.

2. From what Sumerian city comes the oldest surviving record of the use of alcohol in medicine?
(a) Nippur.
(b) Eshnunna.
(c) Ur.
(d) Uruk.

3. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?
(a) 900 BCE.
(b) 1600 BCE.
(c) 1200 BCE.
(d) 2400 BCE.

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

5. When did Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu introduce coffee to the French West Indes?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1689.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did France's first coffeehouse open?

2. What popular drinking game in Ancient Greece involved flicking the last remaining drops of wine from a cup at a specific target?

3. The pictogram from a seal found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia that shows two figures drinking beer through straws dates to approximately what age?

4. What word refers to a drinking horn in Ancient Greece?

5. The earliest physical evidence of wine production comes from red residue in a pottery jar that has been dated to approximately what year?

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