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

2. Where did France's first coffeehouse open?
(a) Paris.
(b) Bordeaux.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Marseille.

3. Who was the founding editor of the Tatler magazine?
(a) Christopher Wren.
(b) Thomas Jordan.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

4. When did King Charles II issue a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee-houses"?
(a) July 4, 1695.
(b) January 12, 1682.
(c) May 12, 1703.
(d) December 29, 1675.

5. When did the custom of drinking coffee first become popular in Yemen?
(a) The mid-seventeenth century.
(b) The mid-fourteenth century.
(c) The mid-sixteenth century.
(d) The mid-fifteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. When analyzed in the early twentieth century, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was found to contain what percentage of alcohol?

2. When did the Sung dynasty rule in China?

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

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

5. As a result of the trial in The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola, the company promised not to use children in its advertisements. They maintained this policy until what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was French Wine Coca and when did it emerge?

2. How did early French and English coffeehouses differ?

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

4. Discuss the role of coffeehouses for information exchange in the seventeenth century.

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

6. How did early tea shops in England differ from coffeehouses? How did this contribute to their success?

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

8. What caused the Opium War of 1839-42? How did it end?

9. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

10. How is coffee made? Where and when did it originate as a beverage?

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