Knowledge Check: Coffee

1. What are the latitude boundaries of the Coffee Belt?

15 degrees North to 15 degrees South25 degrees North to 30 degrees South40 degrees North to 40 degrees SouthOnly the tropics, 23.5 North to 23.5 South

2. Why were English coffeehouses of the 1600s and 1700s nicknamed Penny Universities?

One penny, the price of a cup, bought you a seat in the day's debateThey charged one penny for a university degreeThey were paid for by a penny tax on coffeeThey sold coffee for a penny only to students

3. What does coffee's inelastic demand tell us about how people buy it?

Demand drops sharply with any price increaseDemand barely changes with price, because people treat coffee as a necessityDemand depends only on advertising, not priceDemand is purely seasonal

4. The Arabic word qahwa, the root of the word coffee, originally meant what?

WineWaterBeanMorning

5. Which country grows the most coffee, about 38 percent of the world's supply?

BrazilVietnamColombiaEthiopia

6. Why did King Charles II try to ban coffeehouses in 1675, and what happened?

He wanted to promote tea, and the ban held until his deathHe called them places spreading scandalous reports against his government, and the ban was reversed in 11 days after public outcryDoctors blamed coffee for the plague, and the ban lasted a yearThey avoided taxes, so he taxed them out of business

7. In a typical commodity-coffee supply chain, about what share of the retail price reaches the farmer at the farm gate?

About 10 percentAbout 30 percentAbout 50 percentAbout 70 percent

8. The Ethiopian Buna ceremony's three rounds, abol, tona, and baraka, map onto what?

A three-act narrative: rising action, development, and resolutionBreakfast, lunch, and dinnerThree different coffee speciesThree price tiers for coffee

9. By 2050, what could happen to much of today's coffee-growing land as the climate warms?

Up to half of it could become unsuitable for coffeeAll of it will become unsuitableThe growing area will roughly doubleNothing measurable will change

10. What was the Dutch Cultuurstelsel?

A forced-cultivation system in Java that made farmers grow export crops, including coffeeA fair-trade certification founded in AmsterdamA famous Dutch coffeehouseA variety of Arabica coffee