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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "Spirits in the Colonial Period".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1779.

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

3. What does the author refer to as the world's first literary work in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) The Illiad.
(c) Lysistrata.
(d) The Odyssey.

4. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?
(a) 500,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 200,000 years ago.
(d) 150,000 years ago.

5. In what mountain region was wine likely first produced in the Neothilic period, according to the author in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Himalayan Mountains.
(c) The Zagros Mountains.
(d) The Andes Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Virginia first established by the British as a permanent settlement in the New World?

2. Around the eighth century BCE, the Greek-speaking peoples referred to non-Greek speakers as what?

3. When did Alexander the Great die from a mysterious illness?

4. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?

5. Approximately when did pottery emerge?

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