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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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) Edmund Waller.
(d) Lu Yu.

2. Who came to power at the end of the English civil war after the dethronement and execution of King Charles I?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Kha'ir Beg.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

3. Of what disease did John Pemberton die?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Brain cancer.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) Stomach cancer.

4. When was NATO established?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1968.

5. Who wrote "News from the Coffee-House" in 1667?
(a) Richard Steele.
(b) Thomas Jordan.
(c) Thomas Macauley.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composer wrote a "Coffee-Cantana" satirizing those who unsuccessfully opposed coffee on medical grounds?

2. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?

3. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?

4. Where did John Pemberton live and work as a pharmacist?

5. Who suggested the name "Coca-Cola" for Pemberton's formula?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and when did the consumption of soda water become widespread in the United States?

2. How was Coca-Cola promoted during World War II?

3. What three challenges faced Coca-Cola in the 1930s? How were these obstacles overcome?

4. How was sparkling water (soda water) first promoted and sold?

5. How did Americans expand upon the manufacturing process during the Industrial Revolution?

6. What are tea gardens and when did they emerge?

7. What opposition did coffee face in the Muslim world?

8. How does coffee relate to the French Revolution?

9. How did early French and English coffeehouses differ?

10. What does the Scientific Revolution refer to?

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