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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: "Coca-Cola and the Rise of America".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many skins of wine did Ashurnasirpal II serve at his massive banquet described in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 20,000 skins.
(b) 1,000 skins.
(c) 10,000 skins.
(d) 5,000 skins.

2. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?
(a) Sheep's milk.
(b) Mare's milk.
(c) Cow's milk.
(d) Goat's milk.

3. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Johannes Gutenberg.
(b) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(c) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(d) Arnald of Villanova.

4. When did American Vice President Richard Nixon visit Moscow and trade insults with the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1959.

5. Who did Asa Candler grant permission to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in 1899?
(a) James Edwards and Richard Wilkinson.
(b) Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead.
(c) Richard Steele and Thomas Macauley.
(d) Christopher Wren and Thomas Jordan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Revolutionary War begin?

2. When did the case entitled The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola go to trial?

3. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?

4. The name Mesopotamia was given to the area between the Tigris River and what river?

5. 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"?

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