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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the case entitled The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola go to trial?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1911.

2. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?
(a) Thomas Macauley.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

3. What Dutch doctor championed tea and its benefits in 1641?
(a) Edmund Waller.
(b) Nikolas Dirx.
(c) Thomas Jordan.
(d) Michael Puff von Schrick.

4. When did Lydia E. Pinkham die?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1883.

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

6. Where did businessman Charles Guth own a chain of confectionery stores and soda fountains?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York City.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

7. When was the Ming dynasty in control?
(a) 1789-1803.
(b) 1368-1644.
(c) 1619-1789.
(d) 1702-1755.

8. Where did John Pemberton live and work as a pharmacist?
(a) New Haven, Connecticut.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) New York, New York.

9. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?
(a) Richard Steele.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Thomas Jordan.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

10. What coffeehouse is described in Robert Hooke's diary from 1674?
(a) Weinstein's.
(b) Garraway's.
(c) O'Connell's.
(d) Harry's.

11. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?
(a) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Kha'ir Beg.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

12. Where did Richard Arkwright develop the first modern factory based around a spinning wheel powered by a waterwheel?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cromford.

13. Where did Jacob of Lebanon open the first coffeeshop in western Europe?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Oxford.

14. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?
(a) Mead.
(b) Soda water.
(c) Water.
(d) Ginger beer.

15. Who wrote The Classic of Tea in 780?
(a) Daniel Edwards.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Lu Yu.
(d) Kha'ir Beg.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did the makers of St. Jacob's Oil spend on advertising in 1881?

2. When did the custom of drinking coffee first become popular in Yemen?

3. Who is described by the author as Japan's greatest tea-master, who lived in the seventeenth century?

4. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?

5. When was Francis Bacon's The New Logic published?

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