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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does she write for this person?
(a) A romance novel.
(b) A script for a pornographic movie.
(c) A collection of short, erotic stories.
(d) A love letter.

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

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

5. Who set up private orgies for Allende's mother?
(a) Her mother's boyfriend.
(b) Her mother's second husband.
(c) Her mother's friend.
(d) Her mother's first husband.

6. How does the jungle appear to visitors?
(a) A wonderful place to find food.
(b) Full of wild animals.
(c) Scary.
(d) Only green.

7. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?
(a) People love technology.
(b) People have nothing better to do.
(c) These aphrodisiacs are available.
(d) Little excites or surprises people.

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

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

10. With what are all the important people in Allende's life associated?
(a) Specific sounds.
(b) Specific foods.
(c) Specific smell.
(d) One type of food.

11. What do Japanese male prostitutes do in order to have a variety of sexual positions from which to choose?
(a) They have a DVD to remind them.
(b) They take erotic classes.
(c) They have a list to give to clients from which to choose.
(d) They memorize large portions of erotic manuals.

12. What were herbs and spices grown in convent and monastery gardens used for?
(a) Medicinal purposes.
(b) Flavoring food.
(c) Preserving food.
(d) Aphrodisiac purposes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are doves originally associated?

2. What type of writer's experience regarding food and meals is described in this chapter?

3. How does the chapter close?

4. What is a fugu?

5. What are said to have aphrodisiac qualities?

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