Which is the best summary of this excerpt?

The first one i think just double check

because it shows how you know this by saying he used quotes

The author explains how tea was popular among the upper class. He quotes Samuel Johnson to illustrate its popularity.

Explanation:

This sentence is the best summary of the excerpt because it covers the main points of the piece of writing in a brief and concise manner Through the excerpt, the author explains how famous, delicious and expensive the tea has been since 1700, especially among the upper class since it is the one who could afford it, and he or she illustrates such fact by quoting Samuel Johnson.

The other options are incorrect because although the author does mention how addictive tea can be, and he or she mentions that it was bitter, that was sometimes served with sugar and milk and that it was locked in caddies, all of these are just details or characteristics of the tea and not the main point itself.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

the pogroms became known as kristallnacht, the "night of shattered glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. the morning after the pogroms 30,000 german jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.