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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 came to power at the end of the English civil war after the dethronement and execution of King Charles I?
(a) Kha'ir Beg.
(b) Thomas Macauley.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) Jabir ibn Hayyan.

2. When was the Society of Lloyds established?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1782.

3. When was the Tatler magazine founded?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1717.
(c) 1689.
(d) 1709.

4. What composer wrote a "Coffee-Cantana" satirizing those who unsuccessfully opposed coffee on medical grounds?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Thomas Macauley.
(c) Daniel Edwards.
(d) Johann Sebasian Bach.

5. What book did Joseph Priestley publish in 1772?
(a) The Structures of Air and Water.
(b) The Principia.
(c) The Symposium d'Artistes.
(d) Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did France's first coffeehouse open?

2. When was Francis Bacon's The New Logic published?

3. Who wrote the Principia?

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

5. At the height of the British Empire, how much of the world's surface was ruled by the British?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Enlightenment refer to?

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

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

7. What are the medicinal values of tea?

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

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

10. When did John Pemberton first create the beverage that would become Coca-Cola? How was it first sold?

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