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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the order of dishes during a meal affect?
(a) If the guests will need dessert.
(b) How each is appreciated.
(c) How large to make the portion sizes.
(d) How much the dishes will have to be washed.

2. With what does this chapter deal?
(a) The stranger things eaten by humans.
(b) The few things not eaten by humans.
(c) The more exotic things eaten by humans.
(d) The more interesting things eaten by humans.

3. Who does Catherine the Great marry?
(a) An old scholar.
(b) A handsome prince.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) An ugly, gluttonous man.

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

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

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

7. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?
(a) She has an interest in spiders.
(b) To woo her subjects.
(c) She loves to dance.
(d) She loves to be the center of attention.

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

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

10. What does Mahmoud whisper in Tabra's ear?
(a) Compliments and seductions.
(b) He lover her.
(c) A story.
(d) Secret recipes.

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

12. What is Panchita's art?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Painting.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Singing.

13. When does this story originate?
(a) In tenth-century India.
(b) In tenth-century Japan.
(c) In modern-day China.
(d) In modern-day Iran.

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

15. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?
(a) They were difficult to grow.
(b) They do not taste very good.
(c) They were expensive.
(d) They had aphrodisiac qualities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Allende began making bread regularly?

2. How does Allende feel about these practices?

3. What is bouillabaisse?

4. What are some of the most popular methods of preparation of eggs?

5. What spices are on this list?

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