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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described by the author as Japan's greatest tea-master, who lived in the seventeenth century?
(a) Rikyu.
(b) Eisai.
(c) Lu Yu.
(d) Edmund Waller.

2. How many people are officially recorded as having attended the feast for King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?
(a) 12,545.
(b) 69,574.
(c) 95,674.
(d) 23,003.

3. Who declared the British Empire in 1773 as an empire on which the sun never sets?
(a) Christopher Wren.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Sir George Macartney.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

4. How many chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party?
(a) 212.
(b) 130.
(c) 342.
(d) 569.

5. Official imports of tea in Britain went from about six tons in 1699 to how much in 1799?
(a) 15,000 tons.
(b) 5,000 tons.
(c) 8,000 tons.
(d) 11,000 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Sung dynasty rule in China?

2. Approximately when was Egypt's ruler King Scorpion I buried?

3. When was the Dutch East India Company dissolved?

4. What word refers to a Roman banquet?

5. When was the Sugar Act passed at the end of the French and Indian War?

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