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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forbidden Herbs | The Orgy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was initially used to preserve food in hot countries?
(a) Herbs and spices.
(b) Ice.
(c) Springhouses.
(d) Icehouses.

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

3. What were herbs and spices grown in convent and monastery gardens used for?
(a) Flavoring food.
(b) Medicinal purposes.
(c) Aphrodisiac purposes.
(d) Preserving food.

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

5. What is Panchita's art?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Painting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "Mea Culpa of the Culpable" section introduce?

2. What does the author Isabel Allende discuss in the introduction?

3. What does Allende speculate?

4. Why does the lady come up with a plan to kill her lover?

5. What does Allende highlight?

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