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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What profession is highlighted in "Aphrodisiac Cruelties?"
(a) Cattle butchering.
(b) Horse breaking.
(c) Sheep shearing.
(d) Crocodile hunting.

7. How many women are found in a Turkish harem in 1909?
(a) More than 20.
(b) More than 20,000.
(c) More than 2000.
(d) More than 200.

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

9. Who are the gigolo's best clients?
(a) Women.
(b) American men.
(c) Gay men.
(d) French women.

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

11. What type of etiquette does this describe?
(a) Conversations at work.
(b) Table manners.
(c) Polite conversation.
(d) Blind dates.

12. What convent blacklisted these herbs?
(a) Sisters of Notre Dame.
(b) Carmelite Sisters.
(c) Barefoot Sisters of the Poor.
(d) Franciscan Sisters.

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

14. What does Tabra travel in search of?
(a) Unique treasures.
(b) Unique food.
(c) The Shroud of Turin.
(d) The Arc of the Covenant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Allende define an aphrodisiac?

2. Of what is wheat a symbol?

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

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

5. What are unclassifiables?

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