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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. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

2. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1764.

3. When did the custom of drinking coffee first become popular in Yemen?
(a) The mid-seventeenth century.
(b) The mid-fourteenth century.
(c) The mid-sixteenth century.
(d) The mid-fifteenth century.

4. What popular drinking game in Ancient Greece involved flicking the last remaining drops of wine from a cup at a specific target?
(a) Kottabos.
(b) Barbaroi.
(c) Komos.
(d) Convivium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King Charles II issue a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee-houses"?

2. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?

3. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?

4. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?

5. The name Mesopotamia was given to the area between the Tigris River and what river?

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