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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. When did American Vice President Richard Nixon visit Moscow and trade insults with the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1946.

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

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

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) Water.
(c) Soda water.
(d) Ginger beer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what publication did social commentator and writer Mary Gay Humphreys describe the merits of soda water in 1891?

2. What Dutch doctor championed tea and its benefits in 1641?

3. When was cocaine first isolated from coca leaves?

4. When was the Society of Lloyds established?

5. What clockmaker assisted Richard Arkwright in developing the first spinning mill powered by horses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What three challenges faced Coca-Cola in the 1930s? How were these obstacles overcome?

3. How and when did the consumption of soda water become widespread in the United States?

4. How does coffee relate to the French Revolution?

5. What are the medicinal values of tea?

6. Where and when did tea orignate as a beverage?

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

8. What opposition did coffee face in the Muslim world?

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

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

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