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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Allende define an aphrodisiac?
(a) Any natural ingredient that piques amorous desire.
(b) Any smell that piques amorous desire.
(c) Any substance that piques amorous desire.
(d) Any substance or activity that piques amorous desire.

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

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

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

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

13. What is bouillabaisse?
(a) A delicious dish made from venison and vegetables.
(b) The most delectable dish that can be prepared with fish.
(c) A southern French pastry from the 18th century.
(d) The most wonderful beef stew from Romania.

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

15. To whom is Anais Nin writing a letter?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Allende.
(c) The collector of pornography.
(d) Her editor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ocean creature does not belong in the same category as fish?

2. Why can a family friend not eat chicken for ten years?

3. How does the jungle appear to visitors?

4. Why are the herbs blacklisted by the convent?

5. What do beluga, ossetra, and sevruga have in common?

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