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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When does attraction begin in humans?
(a) Up close, through smell.
(b) From a distance, through the eyes.
(c) During a dinner conversation.
(d) From a distance, through sound.

4. How does he die?
(a) A stab wound to the chest.
(b) Jumping off a cliff.
(c) Drowning in a bath of perfumes.
(d) A drop of essence on his tongue.

5. The history orforgies is as varied and colorful as what?
(a) The world.
(b) Nature.
(c) Humankind.
(d) Animalkind.

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. What attracts Allende to her husband?
(a) His incredible skill in the kitchen.
(b) His physical appearance.
(c) His incredible skill in the bedroom.
(d) His incredible work ethic.

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

13. What are some of the most popular methods of preparation of eggs?
(a) Eating eggs raw, hard boiling, scrambling, and making omelets.
(b) As merengue and other toppings.
(c) Eggs benedict, over easy, and sunny side up.
(d) In a cake, pie, or custard.

14. What is a sturgeon?
(a) A family of deer.
(b) A relative to the heron.
(c) A cold water fish.
(d) An elk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Panchita's art?

2. What does Allende speculate?

3. What triggers a man's sexual impulses?

4. What convent blacklisted these herbs?

5. What does Nin say makes sex truly fulfilling?

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