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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are supposed to have the highest aphrodisiac value?
(a) Marine mollusks and crustaceans.
(b) Dolphins and whales.
(c) Love potions and perfume.
(d) Herbs and spices.

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

5. How does Allende feel about these practices?
(a) She is excited to take part.
(b) She is intrigued by them.
(c) She will change her eating habits from this experience.
(d) She does not appreciate them.

6. What is the cause for the modern day obsession with variety?
(a) Busy schedules.
(b) Loss of creativity, due to the rigid education systems.
(c) People having lost the gift of savoring simple things in life.
(d) Technology.

7. What type of writer's experience regarding food and meals is described in this chapter?
(a) Culinary.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Tabloid.
(d) Medical.

8. What does the spiritual guru at the conference Allende attends challenge the attendees to do?
(a) Try a new aphrodisiac.
(b) Eat no less than twenty grapes in one minute.
(c) Eat a grape in no less than twenty minutes.
(d) Get to know someone else at the conference in one minute.

9. Why does Allende's stepson make adjustments on the bread machine?
(a) So the bread will be lighter and fluffier.
(b) To make marijuana brownies to be sold at school.
(c) To make it toast bread.
(d) To make it grow marijuana.

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

11. What triggers a woman's sexual impulses?
(a) Touch and texture.
(b) Sight.
(c) Taste.
(d) Sound and imagination.

12. With what are doves originally associated?
(a) Goddesses of sexuality.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Peace and safety.
(d) Love.

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

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

15. What does Tabra travel in search of?
(a) The Arc of the Covenant.
(b) The Shroud of Turin.
(c) Unique treasures.
(d) Unique food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a delicacy in the Amazon jungle?

2. Who set up private orgies for Allende's mother?

3. What does Allende speculate?

4. What do Allende and Shekter brainstorm?

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

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