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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 the posters featuring Santa Claus drinking Coca-Cola first appear?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1942.

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

3. What Dutch doctor championed tea and its benefits in 1641?
(a) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(b) Edmund Waller.
(c) Nikolas Dirx.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

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

5. Who wrote The Classic of Tea in 780?
(a) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(b) Lu Yu.
(c) Kha'ir Beg.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King Charles II issue a "Proclamation for the suppression of Coffee-houses"?

2. When did American Vice President Richard Nixon visit Moscow and trade insults with the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev?

3. How much money did the makers of St. Jacob's Oil spend on advertising in 1881?

4. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?

5. When did Thomas Twining open a tea shop next door to his coffeehouse in London?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does coffee relate to the French Revolution?

5. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

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

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

8. What does the Enlightenment refer to?

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

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

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