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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What list does Allende give?
(a) Recipes calling for various fruits.
(b) All the fruits that are considered aphrodisiac in nature.
(c) The most exotic and unknown fruits.
(d) The most strange fruits.

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

3. What spices are on this list?
(a) Unusual spices.
(b) Many of the more common spices.
(c) Poisonous spices.
(d) Unique and hard to find spices.

4. Why can a family friend not eat chicken for ten years?
(a) He killed a chicken so unsuccessfully that he was traumatized.
(b) He does not like the taste of chicken.
(c) He found out that many chickens have horrible lives before they are killed.
(d) He became a Buddhist for ten years.

5. When does this story originate?
(a) In modern-day China.
(b) In modern-day Iran.
(c) In tenth-century India.
(d) In tenth-century Japan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What convent blacklisted these herbs?

4. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

5. How does the chapter close?

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