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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Arnald of Villanova.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(d) Johannes Gutenberg.

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

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

5. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?
(a) Salivary amylase enzymes.
(b) Ribonuclease enzymes.
(c) Lipase enzymes.
(d) Diastase enzymes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Alexander the Great's father?

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

3. When was the Molasses Act passed in London?

4. What is the boiling point of water?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the death of King Charles II of Navarre. Who or what caused his death?

2. What artifacts demonstrate the earliest of beer drinking and customs?

3. Why was King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria feast significant?

4. How is rum made? Where did it originate?

5. How did wine factor into Ancient Egyptian culture?

6. What was the customary way to drink wine in Greek culture? How did the Greeks perceive other customs of consuming wine?

7. When was the practice of large-scale wine production introduced? What advancements were made?

8. When and where did wine originate?

9. How did wine lead to Marcus Antonius's death?

10. Describe the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. What caused this revolt?

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