In the high temperature limit $\beta \rightarrow 0$ and $e^{\beta\hbar\omega} \approx 1 + \beta\hbar\omega$, so $C \rightarrow k_B$ which is the same result as in Exercise 1.1.
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We can see that for $\beta\hbar\omega = 1$ we already have $C \approx 0.92k_B$, so we can define a characteristic temperature $T_E = \hbar\omega/k_B$ such that temperatures above this one can be considered high.