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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. The author states in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt" that during the construction of the Ancient Egyptian pyramids, the standard ration for a laborer was three or four loaves of bread and about how many jugs containing around four liters of beer?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

2. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?
(a) Thomas Jordan.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Christopher Wren.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

3. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Alexander the Great.

4. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?
(a) Kha'ir Beg.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

5. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?
(a) 4500 BCE.
(b) 3150 BCE.
(c) 1600 BCE.
(d) 3900 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the English merchant that set up Pasqua Rosee in business operating a coffeehouse?

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

3. When did Richard MacRagh-naill die from overconsumption of alcohol?

4. When did the Great Fire of London occur?

5. Who developed the printing press in the 1430s?

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