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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 is described by the author as Japan's greatest tea-master, who lived in the seventeenth century?

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

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

4. When did Charles II take the throne of England, restoring the monarchy?

5. What was the Mongol capital where Mangu Khan installed a silver drinking fountain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did early French and English coffeehouses differ?

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

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

6. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

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

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

9. When, where, and by whom was the first coffeehouse opened in London?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of coffeehouses as information exchange centers in history. How did this trend emerge? What dangers did coffeehouses presumably present for those in power? What role do coffeehouses play in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

What ingredients are required to make tea? What equipment is needed? Where did tea originate? How did the customs of drinking tea spread?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the process of distillation of spirits. When and where was the process of distillation discovered? For what reasons was it first employed? What equipment is required to distill spirits?

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