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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the Mongol capital where Mangu Khan installed a silver drinking fountain?
(a) Karakorum.
(b) Akrotokon.
(c) Nissai.
(d) Eisai.

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

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

5. Where did Richard Arkwright develop the first modern factory based around a spinning wheel powered by a waterwheel?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cromford.
(c) Liverpool.
(d) London.

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

7. What was coffee known as in Arabic when it originated?
(a) Java.
(b) Qahwah.
(c) Mocha.
(d) Qafir.

8. When did Charles II marry Catherine of Braganza?
(a) 1662.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1651.

9. Who was the founding editor of the Tatler magazine?
(a) Christopher Wren.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Daniel Edwards.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

10. When did the first advertisement for Coca-Cola appear?
(a) March 6, 1888.
(b) May 29, 1886.
(c) June 12, 1901.
(d) September 13, 1880.

11. What book did Joseph Priestley publish in 1772?
(a) The Principia.
(b) The Symposium d'Artistes.
(c) Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
(d) The Structures of Air and Water.

12. When did coffehouses begin opening in Britain?
(a) The 1650s.
(b) The 1450s.
(c) The 1550s.
(d) The 1750s.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?

2. When did James Tuffs display his Acrtic Soda Water Apparatus at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia?

3. When is Emperor Shen Nung's reign traditionally dated?

4. Who suggested the name "Coca-Cola" for Pemberton's formula?

5. When was cocaine first isolated from coca leaves?

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