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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?

2. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

3. Who is the Greek comic poet who is quoted in the opening of Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What cultural role did beer serve in England in the sixteenth century?

2. How is whiskey made? When and where did it orignate?

3. Which came first: beer or agriculture? Why?

4. When and where did wine originate?

5. When was the practice of large-scale wine production introduced? What advancements were made?

6. Why were beer and wine regarded as class distinctions in ancient civilizations?

7. Describe the basic components that make up beer.

8. Describe the basic scientific process of distillation.

9. What role did distilled spirits play in the emergence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

10. What was the Molasses Act and how was it received by the American colonists?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the structure of A History of the World in 6 Glasses. How does the author establish his hypothesis? What is his hypothesis? How does he go about proving this hypothesis? Do you feel that he succeeds? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the correlations between the slave trade and distilled spirits. Why were spirits used as currency in the slave trade? How did the production of distilled spirits factor into the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Essay Topic 3

What ingredients are required to make tea? What equipment is needed? Where did tea originate? How did the customs of drinking tea spread?

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