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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Tea and the British Empire".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described by the author as Japan's greatest tea-master, who lived in the seventeenth century?
(a) Lu Yu.
(b) Edmund Waller.
(c) Eisai.
(d) Rikyu.

2. What clockmaker assisted Richard Arkwright in developing the first spinning mill powered by horses?
(a) John Kay.
(b) Arnald of Villanova.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Daniel Edwards.

3. When did Charles II marry Catherine of Braganza?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1662.
(d) 1651.

4. What word refers to repeated distillation that creates highly concentrated ethanol?
(a) Cultivation.
(b) Aeration.
(c) Rectification.
(d) Detraction.

5. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?
(a) 1647.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1669.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the author of Gastronomia?

3. With how many wine jars was King Scorpion I buried?

4. What was the nickname of Charles II of Navarre?

5. What eighth-century Arab scholar is remembered as one of the fathers of chemistry and the creator of an improved form of distillation apparatus?

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