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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. By around what time did coffee use reach Mecca and Cairo?
(a) 1525.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1510.
(d) 15550.

2. By what year did Urok in Mesopotamia have a population of around 50,000, according to the author in Part 1: "Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt"?
(a) 2000 BCE.
(b) 1000 BCE.
(c) 3000 BCE.
(d) 1500 BCE.

3. What does "aqua ardens" translate to in English?
(a) Water of life.
(b) Burning water.
(c) Bubbling water.
(d) Love potion.

4. When did Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu introduce coffee to the French West Indes?
(a) 1723.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1756.

5. Who wrote the first printed book about distillation in 1478?
(a) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Johannes Gutenberg.
(d) Arnald of Villanova.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Britain defeat the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar?

2. What enzymes convert starch within grain into maltose sugar, or malt?

3. Of what disease did John Pemberton die?

4. Approximately when did pottery emerge?

5. When did King Charles II issue a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee-houses"?

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