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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1557, the Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese to establish a trading post on what tiny peninsula in the Canton estuary?
(a) Macao.
(b) Eisai.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Shanghai.

2. Who wrote Works and Days in the eighth century BCE?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

3. When is Emperor Shen Nung's reign traditionally dated?
(a) 3200-3159 BCE.
(b) 4521-4232 BCE.
(c) 2737-2697 BCE.
(d) 2932-2800 BCE.

4. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?
(a) 1764.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1769.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

2. Where did sugar originate?

3. The word "Rumbillion" was a slang word from southern England meaning what?

4. When was the Tang dynasty?

5. In whose honor was Virginia named?

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