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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. What word refers to a Roman banquet?
(a) Convivium.
(b) Symphonia.
(c) Barbaroi.
(d) Hesiod.

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

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

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

5. In whose honor was Virginia named?
(a) Arnald of Villanova.
(b) Johannes Gutenberg.
(c) Queen Mary I.
(d) Queen Elizabeth I.

Short Answer Questions

1. The great feast of King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome" was to mark the inauguration of his new capital in what city?

2. What beer created by the Incas was offered to the rising sun in a golden cup and then poured onto the ground as an offering to the gods of the Earth?

3. Who was Ashurnasirpal II's son seen in an obelisk standing beneath a parasol in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?

5. When was one of the greatest feasts of history given by King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria?

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