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

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) Why people first began experimenting with scents.
(d) How much better an animal's sense of smell is than a human's.

2. What is the purpose of excess consumption of both food and sex?
(a) Have in abundance.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Enjoyment.
(d) Greed.

3. What is the greatest drawback to eating shellfish?
(a) They often cause allergic reactions.
(b) They are very expensive.
(c) They are difficult to find.
(d) They do not taste very good.

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

5. What does Allende say alligator tastes like?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Pork.
(c) Reconstituted codfish.
(d) Fish.

6. What is a practice Allende has personally witnessed?
(a) Eating love philters.
(b) Eating insects.
(c) Eating snails out of the shells.
(d) Eating reptiles.

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

8. With what are all eggs associated?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Birds.

9. What does the author Isabel Allende discuss in the introduction?
(a) The connections between people, sensory perception, and memory.
(b) That men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
(c) The powers of nature.
(d) Her various trips around the world.

10. How is Allende's friend's blind date turn into a Herculean god?
(a) His kindness.
(b) His skill in the bedroom.
(c) His physical appearance.
(d) His skill in the kitchen.

11. What animal is rich in vitamins, minerals, and protein, low in fate, and has delicious flavor?
(a) Pork.
(b) Goat.
(c) Fish.
(d) Beef.

12. What does Allende caution?
(a) Readers to be careful with words.
(b) Readers to be in love.
(c) Readers to avoid technological aphrodisiacs.
(d) Readers to be careful with aphrodisiacs.

13. What details does Allende include about meat?
(a) What her most and least favorites are.
(b) Where the various animals originated.
(c) What it looks and tastes like.
(d) How each meat is processed and prepared.

14. What happens after the woman in the story is stolen by pirates?
(a) She is made to walk to plank.
(b) She is sold into the sultan's harem.
(c) She becomes a pirate.
(d) She becomes their slave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sturgeon?

2. What triggers a man's sexual impulses?

3. Why can a family friend not eat chicken for ten years?

4. What attracts Allende to her husband?

5. What is bouillabaisse?

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