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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From approximately when does "The Ebers Papyrus" date?
(a) 1700 BCE.
(b) 1100 BCE.
(c) 1550 BCE.
(d) 1200 BCE.

2. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?
(a) Chickens and dogs.
(b) Sheep and goats.
(c) Cats and horses.
(d) Cows and pigs.

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

4. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?
(a) 230 BCE.
(b) 980 BCE.
(c) 870 BCE.
(d) 620 BCE.

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

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

7. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Juvenal.
(d) Barbaroi.

8. 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) 2000 BCE.
(b) 3000 BCE.
(c) 1000 BCE.
(d) 1500 BCE.

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

10. Approximately when did pottery emerge?
(a) 8000 BCE.
(b) 6000 BCE.
(c) 1000 BCE.
(d) 2000 BCE.

11. Who was Alexander the Great's father?
(a) Barbaroi.
(b) Philip II.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Hesiod.

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

13. What word refers to a drinking horn in Ancient Greece?
(a) Cantharos.
(b) Krater.
(c) Rhyton.
(d) Cylix.

14. The earliest written documents consist of what from the Ancient Sumerians?
(a) Poems and short stoies.
(b) Plays and novels.
(c) Epic hunting stories.
(d) Wage lists and tax receipts.

15. Approximately when did humankind adopt the process of farming, beginning with the domestication of cereal grains?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 18,000 years ago.
(c) 3,000 years ago.
(d) 12,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Virginia first established by the British as a permanent settlement in the New World?

2. When did the Boston Tea Party take place?

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

5. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?

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