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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was tobacco smoking introduced to Europe?
(a) In the fifteenth century.
(b) In the mid fifteenth century.
(c) In the sixteenth century.
(d) In the mid sixteenth century.

2. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?
(a) Sleeplessness.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

3. Where do the 'old ways' still reside?
(a) In all of these.
(b) Herbalism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Midwifery.

4. In what year was a full years worth of opium sent up in smoke in China?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1840.

5. What was the first and most immediate payoff of the New World?
(a) Gold.
(b) Corn.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Opium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer is mentioned?

2. What was the opium tincture's name?

3. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

4. What happened to women who drank wine in Rome?

5. What was likely to be America's greatest agricultural product?

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