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

2. Who declared the British Empire in 1773 as an empire on which the sun never sets?

3. The silver fountain that Manga Khan installed in the Mongol capital dispensed koumiss, rice beer, grape wine, and what other beverage?

4. Where did Jacob of Lebanon open the first coffeeshop in western Europe?

5. When was the Dutch East India Company dissolved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the components of the coca plant? Where does it grow?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When and where was Coca-Cola first created? Who created it? How was this beverage first marketed? How has the marketing of this brand changed over time?

Essay Topic 2

When and where did wine originate? What are the components of wine production and how is it produced in its most rudimentary form? What historical advancements influenced wine production?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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