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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. What component of tea has been found in modern research to kill the bacteria that cause cholera, typhoid, and dysentery?

2. Who was the Buddhist monk that wrote a book about the health benefits of tea and is credited with bringing this knowledge to Japan in 1191?

3. Where did France's first coffeehouse open?

4. What composer wrote a "Coffee-Cantana" satirizing those who unsuccessfully opposed coffee on medical grounds?

5. Who came to power at the end of the English civil war after the dethronement and execution of King Charles I?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When and how did Joseph Priestley discover carbonation?

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

5. What are the medicinal values of tea?

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

7. How did Americans expand upon the manufacturing process during the Industrial Revolution?

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

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

10. Who led to tea becoming fashionable in England? When did this occur?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the historical period called the Enlightenment. When did this age take place? Where did it arise? What are the major figures of this period? What beverage does the author associate with the Enlightenment?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the ancient artifacts presented in the book that indicate beer drinking and culture in early history. How far back do artifacts date that indicate beer drinking? What do these artifacts tell us about beer consumption and its prevalence in society?

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