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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What beer created by the Incas was offered to the rising sun in a golden cup and then poured onto the ground as an offering to the gods of the Earth?
(a) Chicha.
(b) Bappir.
(c) Sahti.
(d) Pulque.

2. What was Admiral Edward Vernon's nickname?
(a) "Old Grogram."
(b) "Old Rummy."
(c) "Uncle Tom."
(d) "Old Magnum."

3. 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) Hesiod.
(b) Komos.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Convivium.

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

5. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) 3000 BCE.
(b) 1500 BCE.
(c) 2000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

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

7. The word "Rumbillion" was a slang word from southern England meaning what?
(a) A carriage.
(b) A brawl.
(c) A horse.
(d) A man.

8. What does "aqua vitae" translate to in English?
(a) Water of life.
(b) Tea.
(c) Water of death.
(d) Vodka.

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

10. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Two liters.
(b) Three liters.
(c) One gallon.
(d) One liter.

11. Where did sugar originate?
(a) France.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Polynesia.
(d) Egypt.

12. What was the Ancient Egyptian word for beer?
(a) Isis.
(b) Oasis.
(c) Hekt.
(d) Cartouche.

13. How many skins of wine did Ashurnasirpal II serve at his massive banquet described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 5,000 skins.
(b) 10,000 skins.
(c) 20,000 skins.
(d) 1,000 skins.

14. Who is the Greek comic poet who is quoted in the opening of Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Sophocles.

15. When did Rome sack the Greek colony of Syracuse?
(a) 120 BCE.
(b) 212 BCE.
(c) 356 BCE.
(d) 169 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?

3. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?

4. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?

5. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?

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