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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Allende speculate?
(a) How humanity might have come to creating scents to be worn on the human body.
(b) Why people first began experimenting with scents.
(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. How many lines of information does she give about each fruit?
(a) Between one and two lines.
(b) Between two and eight lines.
(c) Between ten and twenty lines.
(d) Between eight and ten lines.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does this story originate?

2. What does Allende caution?

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

4. What convent blacklisted these herbs?

5. What are said to have aphrodisiac qualities?

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