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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Dutch doctor championed tea and its benefits in 1641?
(a) Michael Puff von Schrick.
(b) Thomas Jordan.
(c) Edmund Waller.
(d) Nikolas Dirx.

2. Who wrote "News from the Coffee-House" in 1667?
(a) Daniel Edwards.
(b) Thomas Macauley.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Thomas Jordan.

3. Who came to power at the end of the English civil war after the dethronement and execution of King Charles I?
(a) Kha'ir Beg.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

4. When did Charles II take the throne of England, restoring the monarchy?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1680.
(c) 1660.
(d) 1670.

5. When is Emperor Shen Nung's reign traditionally dated?
(a) 4521-4232 BCE.
(b) 3200-3159 BCE.
(c) 2932-2800 BCE.
(d) 2737-2697 BCE.

6. Where was Joseph Priestley from?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) Oxford.
(c) London.
(d) Leeds.

7. When did John Pemberton die?
(a) June 23, 1880.
(b) May 12, 1893.
(c) September 30, 1974.
(d) August 16, 1888.

8. Who suggested the name "Coca-Cola" for Pemberton's formula?
(a) Christopher Wren.
(b) Daniel Edwards.
(c) Richard Steele.
(d) Frank Robinson.

9. Who wrote The Classic of Tea in 780?
(a) Daniel Edwards.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Kha'ir Beg.
(d) Lu Yu.

10. Who was the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London?
(a) Richard Steele.
(b) Christopher Wren.
(c) Thomas Jordan.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

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

12. What composer wrote a "Coffee-Cantana" satirizing those who unsuccessfully opposed coffee on medical grounds?
(a) Daniel Edwards.
(b) Jabir ibn Hayyan.
(c) Johann Sebasian Bach.
(d) Thomas Macauley.

13. When did the first advertisement for Coca-Cola appear?
(a) March 6, 1888.
(b) May 29, 1886.
(c) September 13, 1880.
(d) June 12, 1901.

14. When analyzed in the early twentieth century, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was found to contain what percentage of alcohol?
(a) 30-40%.
(b) 15-20%.
(c) 5-10%.
(d) 20-30%.

15. When was the Tatler magazine founded?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1800.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society of Lloyds established?

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

3. When was cocaine first isolated from coca leaves?

4. In what publication did social commentator and writer Mary Gay Humphreys describe the merits of soda water in 1891?

5. Where did Richard Arkwright develop the first modern factory based around a spinning wheel powered by a waterwheel?

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