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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. Who wrote the Principia?

2. What is the name of the medical treatise that Emperor Shen Nung wrote?

3. What local governer in Mecca put coffee on trial in June of 1511?

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

5. Where did Benjamin Silliman begin selling bottled water in 1807?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did early French and English coffeehouses differ?

7. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

8. How was Coca-Cola promoted during World War II?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the transition from hunter-gatherer nomadic societies to stationary settlements in human history. What prompted this shift? What were the first plants and animals to be domesticated? How did this transition enable the discovery of beer?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of wine in Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures. Who had access to wine? What did wine represent within each culture? How and where was wine produced in these cultures?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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