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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "News from the Coffee-House" in 1667?
(a) Thomas Macauley.
(b) Richard Steele.
(c) Daniel Edwards.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

3. When did the posters featuring Santa Claus drinking Coca-Cola first appear?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1942.

4. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?
(a) Mead.
(b) Ginger beer.
(c) Water.
(d) Soda water.

5. In what publication did social commentator and writer Mary Gay Humphreys describe the merits of soda water in 1891?
(a) The Reader's Digest.
(b) The Herald Tribune.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Harper's Weekly.

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

7. Of what disease did John Pemberton die?
(a) Stomach cancer.
(b) Brain cancer.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Lung cancer.

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

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

10. When did the custom of drinking coffee first become popular in Yemen?
(a) The mid-fourteenth century.
(b) The mid-fifteenth century.
(c) The mid-sixteenth century.
(d) The mid-seventeenth century.

11. When did the American Civil War end?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1818.

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

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

14. Where was Joseph Priestley from?
(a) Oxford.
(b) London.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Liverpool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society of Lloyds established?

2. When did Chinese authorities outlaw the use of opium because of the problems with addiction?

3. Who is the Sufi scholar who is often attributed to the practice of making coffee berries into a drink?

4. Who was the founder of Taoism?

5. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?

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