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

2. By around what time did coffee use reach Mecca and Cairo?
(a) 15550.
(b) 1510.
(c) 1525.
(d) 1600.

3. Where did John Pemberton live and work as a pharmacist?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) New Haven, Connecticut.

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

5. When was the Principia published?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1697.
(d) 1723.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to power at the end of the English civil war after the dethronement and execution of King Charles I?

2. Who was the Buddhist monk that wrote a book about the health benefits of tea and is credited with bringing this knowledge to Japan in 1191?

3. Who wrote the poem to Catherine of Braganza for her birthday that discusses her love of tea?

4. In stories of the origins of coffee, the author describes a man named Omar who was condemned to die of starvation in the desert outside of what city in Yemen?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who led to tea becoming fashionable in England? When did this occur?

2. How was sparkling water (soda water) first promoted and sold?

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

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

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

6. When, where, and by whom was the first coffeehouse opened in London?

7. How was Coca-Cola promoted during World War II?

8. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

9. How did Americans expand upon the manufacturing process during the Industrial Revolution?

10. What caused the Opium War of 1839-42? How did it end?

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