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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) $10,005.
(c) $4,000.
(d) $2,300.

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

3. When was NATO established?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1968.

4. When did Thomas Twining open a tea shop next door to his coffeehouse in London?
(a) 1717.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1789.

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

6. As a result of the trial in The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola, the company promised not to use children in its advertisements. They maintained this policy until what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1986.

7. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Kha'ir Beg.
(c) Muhammad al-Dhabhani.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

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

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

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

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

12. Who wrote the Principia?
(a) Sir Isaac Newton.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Thomas Macauley.
(d) Richard Steele.

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

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

15. Official imports of tea in Britain went from about six tons in 1699 to how much in 1799?
(a) 8,000 tons.
(b) 11,000 tons.
(c) 5,000 tons.
(d) 15,000 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard Arkwright develop the first modern factory based around a spinning wheel powered by a waterwheel?

2. When was the Principia published?

3. Who wrote "News from the Coffee-House" in 1667?

4. Where was Joseph Priestley from?

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

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