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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?
(a) Barbaroi.
(b) Etos.
(c) Simera.
(d) Evdomada.

3. What is the boiling point of water?
(a) 100 degrees centigrade.
(b) 78 degrees centigrade.
(c) 56 degrees centigrade.
(d) 58 degrees centigrade.

4. When did France's first coffeehouse open?
(a) 1710.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1671.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?

2. When did Thomas Twining open a tea shop next door to his coffeehouse in London?

3. The great feast of King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" was to mark the inauguration of his new capital in what city?

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

5. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

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