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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. When was the inclusion of lemon or lime juice made compulsory in the creation of grog?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1795.

2. Approximately how long ago did humans begin migrating out of Africa?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 25,000 years ago.
(c) 50,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

3. What is the name of the species of evergreen shrub whose leaves are used to produce tea?
(a) Somatic alleles.
(b) Angelman synapses.
(c) Camellia sinensis.
(d) Cordovina sinensis.

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

5. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?
(a) 500,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 150,000 years ago.
(d) 200,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

2. What German doctor published a tract in 1635 denouncing tea?

3. What beer did the Aztecs offer to Mayahuel, the goddess of fertility?

4. Approximately when did pottery emerge?

5. What component of tea has been found in modern research to kill the bacteria that cause cholera, typhoid, and dysentery?

(see the answer key)

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