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

2. Who is the Sufi scholar who is often attributed to the practice of making coffee berries into a drink?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.
(c) Kha'ir Beg.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

3. When analyzed in the early twentieth century, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was found to contain what percentage of alcohol?
(a) 15-20%.
(b) 20-30%.
(c) 30-40%.
(d) 5-10%.

4. The earliest written documents consist of what from the Ancient Sumerians?
(a) Poems and short stoies.
(b) Plays and novels.
(c) Epic hunting stories.
(d) Wage lists and tax receipts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose honor was Virginia named?

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

3. When did American Vice President Richard Nixon visit Moscow and trade insults with the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev?

4. Official imports of tea in Britain went from about six tons in 1699 to how much in 1799?

5. Who was the author of Gastronomia?

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