prize6-1, Exercise 1

Model answer (check the details):

The earliest written version we have is from about the seventeenth century, long after the events it claims to describe, so it cannot be tested against anything from the time. It matches a common pattern of origin tales with an animal noticing the effect of a plant. It shows that people told stories about coffee, not that this happened. Better evidence comes from fifteenth-century Yemeni sources about Sufi use (check).