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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the god of agriculture and the king of the afterlife in Ancient Egyptian mythology?
(a) Maat.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Nun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

2. What word refers to a drinking horn in Ancient Greece?

3. How many skins of wine did Ashurnasirpal II serve at his massive banquet described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. What popular drinking game in Ancient Greece involved flicking the last remaining drops of wine from a cup at a specific target?

5. Approximately when did pottery emerge?

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