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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. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?
(a) People have nothing better to do.
(b) Little excites or surprises people.
(c) People love technology.
(d) These aphrodisiacs are available.

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

3. How does Allende define an aphrodisiac?
(a) Any substance or activity that piques amorous desire.
(b) Any natural ingredient that piques amorous desire.
(c) Any substance that piques amorous desire.
(d) Any smell that piques amorous desire.

4. What does Allende highlight?
(a) The history of the research and study of aphrodisiacs around the world.
(b) The foods used as aphrodisiacs around the world.
(c) Modern day aphrodisiacs.
(d) Ingredients used in aphrodisiac recipes from around the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the chapter close?

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

3. What is the purpose of an aphrodisiac?

4. What spices are on this list?

5. What does Allende caution?

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