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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. To what does "symposia" refer to in Ancient Greek culture?
(a) Formal drinking parties.
(b) Classical comedies.
(c) Classical dramas.
(d) Classical orchestral concerts.

7. Approximately when did writing first begin to emerge in Sumer?
(a) 4500 BCE.
(b) 2300 BCE.
(c) 1500 BCE.
(d) 3400 BCE.

8. When was the Molasses Act passed in London?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1733.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1702.

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

10. Approximately when did the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt arise?
(a) 18,000 years ago.
(b) 12,000 years ago.
(c) 9,000 years ago.
(d) 5,000 years ago.

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?

2. How much of the human body is comprised of water?

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

4. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?

5. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?

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