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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was initially used to preserve food in hot countries?
(a) Icehouses.
(b) Ice.
(c) Herbs and spices.
(d) Springhouses.

3. What has Christianity taught about the senses and appetites?
(a) They are tools of the devil.
(b) They are natural.
(c) They are part of God's creation.
(d) They are to be set free.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Of what is wheat a symbol?
(a) Growth.
(b) Fraternity.
(c) Fertility.
(d) The country.

10. What spices are on this list?
(a) Unusual spices.
(b) Poisonous spices.
(c) Unique and hard to find spices.
(d) Many of the more common spices.

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

12. What does Allende caution?
(a) Readers to be careful with aphrodisiacs.
(b) Readers to be careful with words.
(c) Readers to avoid technological aphrodisiacs.
(d) Readers to be in love.

13. How do most women end up in a harem?
(a) They are chosen by the sultan.
(b) They are born there.
(c) They volunteer.
(d) They are either kidnapped or sold in the slave markets by their parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There is nothing better than what reading to fire up sexual desire?

2. What do Japanese male prostitutes do in order to have a variety of sexual positions from which to choose?

3. With what are all eggs associated?

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

5. What triggers a woman's sexual impulses?

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