Questions 21-24
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
Write your answers in boxes 21-24
on your answer sheet.
21. How did Robert first feel about the topic?
22. What misconception about early European coffee houses does Emily mention?
23. What surprised Robert about women's role in seventeenth-century coffee houses?
24. Why does Emily say authorities sometimes closed coffee houses?
(A) is correct. Robert says he was worried the topic would be too narrow for a full presentation.
(B) is incorrect. Emily asks if he thought it was too historical and he says no.
(C) is incorrect. He says sources were not his main worry.
Associated Text:
I thought it might be too small for a full presentation. If we were just talking about the drink, I could not see how we would fill the time.
(A) is incorrect. Wealthy aristocratic customers are not identified as the misconception.
(B) is correct. Emily says the common misconception is that early European coffee houses only added wine and beer much later.
(C) is incorrect. The date of introduction to Europe is not the misconception discussed.
Associated Text:
A lot of people imagine early European coffee houses as places where coffee was the only drink on offer.
(A) is incorrect. The script does not say women were openly excluded for over a century.
(B) is incorrect. The point is proprietors, not senior service roles.
(C) is correct. Robert says many seventeenth-century London coffee houses were run by women even though the customers were mostly men.
Associated Text:
I knew the customers were mostly men, but I had not realised that women often owned or managed the London coffee houses themselves.
(A) is incorrect. Disease is mentioned only as an assumption.
(B) is correct. Emily says authorities closed coffee houses because they saw them as places where political dissent was being organised.
(C) is incorrect. Trade complaints from merchants are rejected.
Associated Text:
officials were much more worried about what was being discussed inside. Coffee houses gave political opponents a place to meet and exchange ideas outside formal institutions.
Questions 25-26
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
Write your answers in boxes 25-26
on your answer sheet.
25. What happened to coffee houses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
26. What social feature defines third-wave coffee for Emily?
(A) is correct. Both students agree coffee houses lost their distinct cultural identity and became harder to distinguish from cafes, tea rooms, and restaurants.
(B) is incorrect. Artistic coffee-house cultures existed only in some cities, not as the broader trend.
(C) is incorrect. They say coffee houses did not vanish.
Associated Text:
Coffee houses did not disappear, but they became less easy to separate from cafes, tea rooms and restaurants. The name survived in places, but the older social role became blurred.
(A) is incorrect. It did not revive political-debate culture.
(B) is incorrect. Bean quality matters, but Emily says it is not the defining sociological feature.
(C) is correct. Emily says third-wave coffee shifts the social focus from public discussion to private contemplation.
Associated Text:
Customers are often working alone, reading alone, or sitting with a laptop, not joining a public debate at a shared table.
Questions 27-30
What do the students say about each coffee house?
- controversial origin
- historically significant
- effective at attracting writers
- discussed in their previous project
- records reveal social attitudes
- linked to a famous artwork
Write the correct letter
A-F next to questions 27-30.
The correct answer is B because Caffe Florian is identified as the oldest continuously operating coffee house in Europe.
Associated Text:
Caffe Florian in Venice has been operating continuously for longer than any other European coffee house we found, so it gives us a strong historical anchor.
The correct answer is F because Cafe Procope is described as appearing in a well-known artwork that shaped its revolutionary reputation.
Associated Text:
Cafe Procope in Paris is interesting partly because a famous image helped attach it to the story of revolution.
The correct answer is E because Cafe Central's records are said to show attitudes around class and ethnicity.
Associated Text:
Cafe Central in Vienna is useful because the surviving records show who felt welcome there and who did not, especially around class and ethnicity.
The correct answer is A because sources disagree about Cafe Tortoni's founding date and founder.
Associated Text:
with Cafe Tortoni in Buenos Aires, even the basic origin story is not settled; sources give different dates and different founders.
