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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. 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) 12,545.
(c) 95,674.
(d) 23,003.

2. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Alexander the Great.
(d) Socrates.

3. Sahti is a traditional beer made where?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Finland.

4. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 25,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

5. Who was the author of Gastronomia?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Archestratus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the approximate measurement of a sila from Ancient Mesopotamia?

2. The author notes in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" that what most distinguished the Greek approach to wine from that of other cultures was the practice of doing what?

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

4. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?

5. The pictogram from a seal found at Tepe Gawra in Mesopotamia that shows two figures drinking beer through straws dates to approximately what age?

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