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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does he die?
(a) A drop of essence on his tongue.
(b) Drowning in a bath of perfumes.
(c) A stab wound to the chest.
(d) Jumping off a cliff.

2. What does Allende speculate?
(a) Why people first began experimenting with scents.
(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) How much better an animal's sense of smell is than a human's.

3. What are said to have aphrodisiac qualities?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Hogs.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Game birds.

4. How do most women end up in a harem?
(a) They are born there.
(b) They are chosen by the sultan.
(c) They volunteer.
(d) They are either kidnapped or sold in the slave markets by their parents.

5. What convent blacklisted these herbs?
(a) Barefoot Sisters of the Poor.
(b) Franciscan Sisters.
(c) Sisters of Notre Dame.
(d) Carmelite Sisters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

3. What are the forbidden fruits Allende is talking about?

4. What is the greatest drawback to eating shellfish?

5. The history orforgies is as varied and colorful as what?

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