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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Night in Egypt | Sins of the Flesh.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who took over domestic chores and maternal duties?
(a) Housekeepers and nannies.
(b) The neighboring women.
(c) The children.
(d) The younger women in the home.

3. What convent blacklisted these herbs?
(a) Franciscan Sisters.
(b) Barefoot Sisters of the Poor.
(c) Carmelite Sisters.
(d) Sisters of Notre Dame.

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

5. What does the "Mea Culpa of the Culpable" section introduce?
(a) Meats that are considered sensual.
(b) Various plants that are aphrodisiacs.
(c) The people who collaborated with Allende on this work.
(d) The members of Allende's family.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the spiritual guru at the conference Allende attends challenge the attendees to do?

4. What does Allende say alligator tastes like?

5. What is a practice Allende has personally witnessed?

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