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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?
(a) The Pen ts'ao.
(b) The Tui na.
(c) The Qigong.
(d) The Zhōngyī.

2. Who wrote The Classic of Tea in 780?
(a) Daniel Edwards.
(b) Lu Yu.
(c) Kha'ir Beg.
(d) Jabir ibn Hayyan.

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

4. When was A Broadside Against Coffee published?
(a) 1672.
(b) 1658.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1800.

5. For how much money did Asa Candler secure the rights to Coca-Cola?
(a) $2,300.
(b) $10,005.
(c) $5,670.
(d) $4,000.

6. In 1557, the Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese to establish a trading post on what tiny peninsula in the Canton estuary?
(a) Macao.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Eisai.
(d) Shanghai.

7. Who did Asa Candler grant permission to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in 1899?
(a) James Edwards and Richard Wilkinson.
(b) Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead.
(c) Christopher Wren and Thomas Jordan.
(d) Richard Steele and Thomas Macauley.

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

9. When was Francis Bacon's The New Logic published?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1700.
(c) 1659.
(d) 1620.

10. When did the case entitled The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola go to trial?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1911.

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

12. When did James Tuffs display his Acrtic Soda Water Apparatus at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1876.

13. Who was the founder of Taoism?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Kha'ir Beg.
(c) Siddhartha Gautama.
(d) Lao-tzu.

14. In what periodical did the first Coca-Cola ad appear?
(a) Harper's Bizarre.
(b) The Atlanta Journal.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The Los Angeles Times.

15. When was the Dutch East India Company dissolved?
(a) 1795.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1759.

Short Answer Questions

1. By around what time did coffee use reach Mecca and Cairo?

2. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?

3. What U.S. President endorsed Coca-Cola's development of a colorless version of their beverage after receiving a Russian request?

4. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?

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

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