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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through At First Sight | Etiquette.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Allende receive a phone call from her stepson, Jason?
(a) He wants to know what is for dinner.
(b) He enjoys talking to his stepmother.
(c) He is hoping to get a later curfew.
(d) He is seeking advice for a first date.

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 humanity might have come to creating scents to be worn on the human body.
(d) How much better an animal's sense of smell is than a human's.

3. What is the purpose of an aphrodisiac?
(a) To populate the world.
(b) To make people kind to one another.
(c) To incite passion.
(d) To promote love.

4. What association is inevitable?
(a) Between the look of food and how it tastes.
(b) Between culture and the desire for a specific food.
(c) Between the shapes and colors of food and those of the human body.
(d) Between the look of food and how it smells.

5. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?
(a) She loves to be the center of attention.
(b) She has an interest in spiders.
(c) She loves to dance.
(d) To woo her subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of excess consumption of both food and sex?

2. When does this story originate?

3. How is Allende's friend's blind date turn into a Herculean god?

4. What is the cause for the modern day obsession with variety?

5. What is a very close second best aphrodisiac?

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