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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. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(c) Johannes Gutenberg.
(d) Arnald of Villanova.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?

2. Approximately when did anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens emerge in Africa?

3. Approximately when did writing first begin to emerge in Sumer?

4. Who was the professor of the French medical school of Montpellier who produced instructions for distilling win around 1300?

5. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?

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