Knowledge Check: Coffee

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

40 degrees North to 40 degrees SouthOnly the tropics, 23.5 North to 23.5 South25 degrees North to 30 degrees South15 degrees North to 15 degrees 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 is purely seasonalDemand drops sharply with any price increaseDemand depends only on advertising, not priceDemand barely changes with price, because people treat coffee as a necessity

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

MorningBeanWineWater

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

VietnamBrazilColombiaEthiopia

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

He 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 businessHe wanted to promote tea, and the ban held until his death

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

About 70 percentAbout 50 percentAbout 30 percentAbout 10 percent

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

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

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

The growing area will roughly doubleUp to half of it could become unsuitable for coffeeNothing measurable will changeAll of it will become unsuitable

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 variety of Arabica coffeeA famous Dutch coffeehouse

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