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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Greek word refers to a form of ritual exhibitionism wherein the members of a drinking group would course through the streets in nocturnal revelry to emphasize the strength and unity of their group?
(a) Komos.
(b) Convivium.
(c) Hesiod.
(d) Barbaroi.

2. At the end of the first millennium AD, Cordoba was the capital of Arab Andalusia, which is now what region?
(a) Southern France.
(b) Northern France.
(c) Northern Spain.
(d) Southern Spain.

3. When did Richard MacRagh-naill die from overconsumption of alcohol?
(a) 1425.
(b) 1405.
(c) 1465.
(d) 1414.

4. Who was the author of Gastronomia?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Archestratus.

5. Mesopotamia refers to a region that corresponds to what modern-day country?
(a) Egypt.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Iraq.

6. 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) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(d) Jabir ibn Hayyan.

7. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1805.

8. Who wrote Works and Days in the eighth century BCE?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hesiod.
(d) Socrates.

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

10. What word refers to a Roman banquet?
(a) Barbaroi.
(b) Convivium.
(c) Symphonia.
(d) Hesiod.

11. What does "aqua ardens" translate to in English?
(a) Love potion.
(b) Burning water.
(c) Water of life.
(d) Bubbling water.

12. Who wrote the first printed book about distillation in 1478?
(a) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(b) Arnald of Villanova.
(c) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(d) Johannes Gutenberg.

13. How many people are officially recorded as having attended the feast for King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 12,545.
(b) 95,674.
(c) 23,003.
(d) 69,574.

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

15. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?
(a) Riesling.
(b) Chardonnay.
(c) Falernian.
(d) Sauvignon blanc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?

2. What ship did John Winthrop take to America in 1628?

3. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?

4. The pictogram from a seal found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia that shows two figures drinking beer through straws dates to approximately what age?

5. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?

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