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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What coffeehouse is described in Robert Hooke's diary from 1674?
(a) Garraway's.
(b) Weinstein's.
(c) Harry's.
(d) O'Connell's.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the case entitled The United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of CocaCola go to trial?

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

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

4. When was A Broadside Against Coffee published?

5. When did Charles II take the throne of England, restoring the monarchy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was French Wine Coca and when did it emerge?

2. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

3. How is coffee made? Where and when did it originate as a beverage?

4. What are tea gardens and when did they emerge?

5. Discuss the role of coffeehouses for information exchange in the seventeenth century.

6. When did the first Europeans travel to China? How and where did they establish trade?

7. How was coffee perceived by the scientific community when it first came into use in Europe?

8. What were the impacts of the Tea Act of 1773? What did the act entail?

9. What are the components of tea? How is it prepared?

10. When did the Industrial Revolution take place? What did it entail?

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