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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 eight and ten lines.
(d) Between ten and twenty lines.

2. What does Allende caution?
(a) Readers to be in love.
(b) Readers to be careful with aphrodisiacs.
(c) Readers to be careful with words.
(d) Readers to avoid technological aphrodisiacs.

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

4. How many women are found in a Turkish harem in 1909?
(a) More than 20.
(b) More than 2000.
(c) More than 20,000.
(d) More than 200.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What convent blacklisted these herbs?

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

3. What triggers a woman's sexual impulses?

4. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

5. How does the chapter close?

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