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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "Coffee in the Age of Reason".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are officially recorded as having attended the feast for King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 69,574.
(b) 23,003.
(c) 12,545.
(d) 95,674.

2. Who was the founding editor of the Tatler magazine?
(a) Thomas Jordan.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

3. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 700.
(d) 300.

4. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?
(a) Mahbid.
(b) Bappir.
(c) Sappir.
(d) Yuppir.

5. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Kha'ir Beg.
(c) Thomas Macauley.
(d) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Italian wine grown in the region of Campania was regarded the finest wine of all by the Romans?

2. Who wrote Works and Days in the eighth century BCE?

3. What does "aqua ardens" translate to in English?

4. When was the Principia published?

5. Where were coffee plantations first successfully developed by the Dutch East India Company in the 1690s?

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