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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. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?
(a) Charles the Good.
(b) Charles the Bad.
(c) Charles the Arrogant.
(d) Charles the Brave.

2. What was the Mongol capital where Mangu Khan installed a silver drinking fountain?
(a) Nissai.
(b) Akrotokon.
(c) Eisai.
(d) Karakorum.

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

4. In 1557, the Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese to establish a trading post on what tiny peninsula in the Canton estuary?
(a) Macao.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Eisai.

5. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?
(a) Aeration.
(b) Detraction.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Rectification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first of the tea gardens to open in London?

2. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?

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. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?

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

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