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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?
(a) They had aphrodisiac qualities.
(b) They were difficult to grow.
(c) They do not taste very good.
(d) They were expensive.

2. What is the greatest drawback to eating shellfish?
(a) They are very expensive.
(b) They often cause allergic reactions.
(c) They do not taste very good.
(d) They are difficult to find.

3. What has Christianity taught about the senses and appetites?
(a) They are tools of the devil.
(b) They are part of God's creation.
(c) They are to be set free.
(d) They are natural.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What triggers a woman's sexual impulses?

2. What does Allende caution?

3. How do most women end up in a harem?

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

5. What list does Allende give?

(see the answer key)

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