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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forbidden Fruits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lines of information does she give about each fruit?
(a) Between two and eight lines.
(b) Between one and two lines.
(c) Between ten and twenty lines.
(d) Between eight and ten lines.

2. What are listed as fruits but are not traditionally classified as fruits in American culture?
(a) Avocados and pistachios.
(b) Tomatoes and Zucchini.
(c) Olives and walnuts.
(d) Summer squash and almonds.

3. How does the chapter close?
(a) With a poem by Pablo Neruda.
(b) With a list of perfumes.
(c) With the most popular perfume in the United States today.
(d) With a recipe for plum pudding.

4. What does Allende speculate?
(a) How much better an animal's sense of smell is than a human's.
(b) How humanity might have come to creating scents to be worn on the human body.
(c) How people first became attracted to one another by scent.
(d) Why people first began experimenting with scents.

5. With what are doves originally associated?
(a) Love.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Goddesses of sexuality.
(d) Peace and safety.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

2. Why do humans feel more comfortable consuming shellfish?

3. What are some common favorites on the list?

4. Why can a family friend not eat chicken for ten years?

5. What has Christianity taught about the senses and appetites?

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