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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. President endorsed Coca-Cola's development of a colorless version of their beverage after receiving a Russian request?

2. When did the first advertisement for Coca-Cola appear?

3. By around what time did coffee use reach Mecca and Cairo?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Scientific Revolution refer to?

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

4. How did early tea shops in England differ from coffeehouses? How did this contribute to their success?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the historical period called the Enlightenment. When did this age take place? Where did it arise? What are the major figures of this period? What beverage does the author associate with the Enlightenment?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values and customs of wine production and consumption in Ancient Rome. How did the Romans differ from the Greeks in their production of wine? What aspects of Greek wine culture did they adopt? Who consumed wine in Ancient Rome?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the structure of A History of the World in 6 Glasses. How does the author establish his hypothesis? What is his hypothesis? How does he go about proving this hypothesis? Do you feel that he succeeds? Why or why not?

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