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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forbidden Herbs | The Orgy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of excess consumption of both food and sex?
(a) Have in abundance.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Enjoyment.
(d) Greed.

2. How is Allende's friend's blind date turn into a Herculean god?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His physical appearance.
(c) His skill in the bedroom.
(d) His skill in the kitchen.

3. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?
(a) People have nothing better to do.
(b) Little excites or surprises people.
(c) People love technology.
(d) These aphrodisiacs are available.

4. What were herbs and spices grown in convent and monastery gardens used for?
(a) Flavoring food.
(b) Medicinal purposes.
(c) Preserving food.
(d) Aphrodisiac purposes.

5. What does Allende highlight?
(a) The history of the research and study of aphrodisiacs around the world.
(b) Ingredients used in aphrodisiac recipes from around the world.
(c) The foods used as aphrodisiacs around the world.
(d) Modern day aphrodisiacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who set up private orgies for Allende's mother?

2. What does the author Isabel Allende discuss in the introduction?

3. How many kinds of tastes are there?

4. Why does the lady come up with a plan to kill her lover?

5. What utensils do most cultures today use for eating?

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