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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. How many chests of tea were dumped into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party?

2. What is the beverage koumiss derived from?

3. Who was the founding editor of the Tatler magazine?

4. What is the name of the species of evergreen shrub whose leaves are used to produce tea?

5. What clockmaker assisted Richard Arkwright in developing the first spinning mill powered by horses?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When did the first Europeans travel to China? How and where did they establish trade?

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

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

10. What was French Wine Coca and when did it emerge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When did distilled spirits first come into customary use as recreational beverages? What kinds of distilled spirits were the first to emerge? How were these drinks consumed? What was their economic value?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the correlations between the slave trade and distilled spirits. Why were spirits used as currency in the slave trade? How did the production of distilled spirits factor into the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

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