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

2. What book did Joseph Priestley publish in 1772?
(a) The Symposium d'Artistes.
(b) Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
(c) The Principia.
(d) The Structures of Air and Water.

3. Approximately when did the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt arise?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 9,000 years ago.
(c) 12,000 years ago.
(d) 18,000 years ago.

4. When did John Pemberton die?
(a) May 12, 1893.
(b) September 30, 1974.
(c) June 23, 1880.
(d) August 16, 1888.

5. For whom was the third Giza pyramid built?
(a) King Menkaure.
(b) King Tutankhamun.
(c) King Ramesses II.
(d) King Mentuhotep I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?

2. From approximately when does "The Ebers Papyrus" date?

3. What Roman satirist of the early second century CE is quoted in Part 2: "Wine in Greece and Rome"?

4. Who is the sun god in Egyptian mythology?

5. When was the Dutch East India Company dissolved?

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