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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. When did the Mayflower set out for America?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1616.

2. From what Sumerian city comes the oldest surviving record of the use of alcohol in medicine?
(a) Ur.
(b) Nippur.
(c) Eshnunna.
(d) Uruk.

3. How much of the human body is comprised of water?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 4/5.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 1/3.

4. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) 3000 BCE.
(b) 1500 BCE.
(c) 2000 BCE.
(d) 1000 BCE.

5. Where did Jacob of Lebanon open the first coffeeshop in western Europe?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did coffehouses begin opening in Britain?

3. What playwright wrote The Bacchae?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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