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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. Who was the founder of Buddhism?
(a) Siddhartha Gautama.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Sir George Macartney.
(d) Lao-tzu.

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

3. When was Francis Bacon's The New Logic published?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1700.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1620.

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

5. Who suggested the name "Coca-Cola" for Pemberton's formula?
(a) Richard Steele.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Frank Robinson.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the founding editor of the Tatler magazine?

2. When was the Tang dynasty?

3. When did James Tuffs display his Acrtic Soda Water Apparatus at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia?

4. What nineteenth-century historian wrote History of England?

5. When did the Sung dynasty rule in China?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did early French and English coffeehouses differ?

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

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

6. What does the Enlightenment refer to?

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

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

9. What was the British East India Company and when was it established?

10. What are kola nuts? Where did they originate?

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