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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) Pulque.
(b) Sahti.
(c) Chicha.
(d) Bappir.

2. 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) 1000 BCE.
(c) 1500 BCE.
(d) 2000 BCE.

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

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

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

6. When did the fall of Carthage occur at the end of the Third Punic War?
(a) 120 BCE.
(b) 212 BCE.
(c) 146 BCE.
(d) 368 BCE.

7. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?
(a) 1600 BCE.
(b) 4500 BCE.
(c) 3900 BCE.
(d) 3150 BCE.

8. What ship did John Winthrop take to America in 1628?
(a) The Mary.
(b) The Lorry.
(c) The Elizabeth.
(d) The Arbella.

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

10. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?
(a) Pulque.
(b) Bappir.
(c) Chicha.
(d) Sahti.

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

12. Where did the magnetic compass originate?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) India.
(d) China.

13. Approximately when were the Egyptian pyramids constructed?
(a) 2400 BCE.
(b) 1200 BCE.
(c) 1600 BCE.
(d) 900 BCE.

14. The author notes in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" that what most distinguished the Greek approach to wine from that of other cultures was the practice of doing what?
(a) Mixing wine with water before consumption.
(b) Burning off the alcohol in wine before consumption.
(c) Toasting cheers before consumption.
(d) Distilling wine into brandy before consumption.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Prince Henrique of Portugal also known as?

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

4. From what Sumerian city comes the oldest surviving record of the use of alcohol in medicine?

5. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?

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