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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) Many of the more common spices.
(b) Unusual spices.
(c) Poisonous spices.
(d) Unique and hard to find spices.

2. What do Allende and Shekter brainstorm?
(a) Known aphrodisiacs.
(b) Vacations to take.
(c) How to bring about world peace.
(d) Places to travel looking for aphrodisiacs.

3. What does Allende believe is the most powerful aphrodisiac?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Wine.
(c) Lust.
(d) Love.

4. What are unclassifiables?
(a) Foods that are yet to be named.
(b) Commonly eaten meats that are considered aphrodisiac but cannot be included in teh common food categories.
(c) Those who are only sometimes vegetarians.
(d) Vegetables that also fall into the fruit category.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. How are a man and woman's sensitivities to smell?
(a) Very different.
(b) The same.
(c) Somewhat similar.
(d) Very similar.

12. Why do humans feel more comfortable consuming shellfish?
(a) They are not attractive.
(b) They are small.
(c) They do not have expressive eyes or audible voices.
(d) They are mean.

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

14. Who are the most successful at cultivating the art of the erotic?
(a) Vegetarians.
(b) The French.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Italian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was initially used to preserve food in hot countries?

2. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?

3. Why does the woman strangle the man with a silk muffler?

4. How does he die?

5. Who are the gigolo's best clients?

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