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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How long have there been kept men in various cultures?
(a) Only a few centuries.
(b) As far back as recorded history.
(c) Since the Middle Ages.
(d) Before the birth of Christianity.

5. When does attraction begin in humans?
(a) Up close, through smell.
(b) From a distance, through the eyes.
(c) During a dinner conversation.
(d) From a distance, through sound.

6. Who are the gigolo's best clients?
(a) Gay men.
(b) Women.
(c) French women.
(d) American men.

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

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

9. What are said to have aphrodisiac qualities?
(a) Hogs.
(b) Game birds.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Chickens.

10. What does Nin say makes sex truly fulfilling?
(a) Being controlled by another.
(b) Having control over someone else.
(c) The influence and indulgence of the senses.
(d) Being with someone you love.

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

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

13. Why does Tabra travel with Mahmoud?
(a) She is attracted to him.
(b) It is unsafe for women to travel alone.
(c) He is her cousin.
(d) They were friends in college.

14. There is nothing better than what reading to fire up sexual desire?
(a) Romance novels.
(b) Pornographic magazines.
(c) The priests' confessional list of questions.
(d) The kama sutra.

15. How many women are found in a Turkish harem in 1909?
(a) More than 2000.
(b) More than 200.
(c) More than 20,000.
(d) More than 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is wheat a symbol?

2. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

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

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

5. What happened to Bobbitt's porn career after his penis was reattached?

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