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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Chinese authorities outlaw the use of opium because of the problems with addiction?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1729.
(d) 1717.

2. In stories of the origins of coffee, the author describes a man named Omar who was condemned to die of starvation in the desert outside of what city in Yemen?
(a) Taiz.
(b) Sana'a.
(c) Mocha.
(d) Aden.

3. How many chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party?
(a) 212.
(b) 569.
(c) 130.
(d) 342.

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

5. What clockmaker assisted Richard Arkwright in developing the first spinning mill powered by horses?
(a) Arnald of Villanova.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) John Kay.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

6. How much money did the makers of St. Jacob's Oil spend on advertising in 1881?
(a) $400,000.
(b) $1,000,000.
(c) $500,000.
(d) $300,000.

7. At the height of the British Empire, how much of the world's surface was ruled by the British?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/4.

8. Who was the founder of Buddhism?
(a) Siddhartha Gautama.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Lao-tzu.
(d) Sir George Macartney.

9. When was the Tang dynasty?
(a) 909-1002 CE.
(b) 569-623 CE.
(c) 709-1000 CE.
(d) 618-907 CE.

10. Who declared the British Empire in 1773 as an empire on which the sun never sets?
(a) Thomas Jordan.
(b) Sir George Macartney.
(c) Christopher Wren.
(d) Jabir ibn Hayyan.

11. What component of tea has been found in modern research to kill the bacteria that cause cholera, typhoid, and dysentery?
(a) Alcitic acid.
(b) Caffeine.
(c) Tannic acid.
(d) Asorbic acid.

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

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

14. When was the London penny post established?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1703.
(c) 1680.
(d) 1900.

15. Who wrote the poem to Catherine of Braganza for her birthday that discusses her love of tea?
(a) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(b) Edmund Waller.
(c) Arnald of Villanova.
(d) Richard Steele.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Buddhist monk that wrote a book about the health benefits of tea and is credited with bringing this knowledge to Japan in 1191?

2. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?

3. When did Thomas Twining open a tea shop next door to his coffeehouse in London?

4. When was the distinctive glass bottle shape of Coca-Cola first introduced by the company?

5. Where were coffee plantations first successfully developed by the Dutch East India Company in the 1690s?

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