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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Aphrodisiac Cruelties | About Eroticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the chapter close?
(a) With a recipe for plum pudding.
(b) With a poem by Pablo Neruda.
(c) With the most popular perfume in the United States today.
(d) With a list of perfumes.

2. 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.

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

4. What is a very close second best aphrodisiac?
(a) Wine.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Love.
(d) Variety.

5. What profession is highlighted in "Aphrodisiac Cruelties?"
(a) Horse breaking.
(b) Cattle butchering.
(c) Crocodile hunting.
(d) Sheep shearing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Christianity taught about the senses and appetites?

2. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?

3. What association is inevitable?

4. How are a man and woman's sensitivities to smell?

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

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