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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. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?
(a) Johannes Gutenberg.
(b) Arnald of Villanova.
(c) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(d) Michael Puff von Schrick.

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

3. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?
(a) Plato.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Socrates.

4. When was the Principia published?
(a) 1697.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1687.

5. When did coffehouses begin opening in Britain?
(a) The 1650s.
(b) The 1550s.
(c) The 1450s.
(d) The 1750s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rome sack the Greek colony of Syracuse?

2. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?

3. When did the Great Fire of London occur?

4. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?

5. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?

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