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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 an aphrodisiac?
(a) To promote love.
(b) To populate the world.
(c) To make people kind to one another.
(d) To incite passion.

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

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

4. What type of writer's experience regarding food and meals is described in this chapter?
(a) Tabloid.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Medical.
(d) Culinary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. There is nothing better than what reading to fire up sexual desire?
(a) The priests' confessional list of questions.
(b) The kama sutra.
(c) Pornographic magazines.
(d) Romance novels.

12. Why does the woman strangle the man with a silk muffler?
(a) She likes to be in control.
(b) He likes silk mufflers.
(c) To prolong his erection and their pleasure.
(d) He looks good in a silk muffler.

13. What values were acceptable in Allende's family?
(a) Those having to do with her father's interests.
(b) Those having to do with religion and faith.
(c) Those having to do with Chilean culture.
(d) Those having to do with the mind and the spirit.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?

2. What does the spiritual guru at the conference Allende attends challenge the attendees to do?

3. What association is inevitable?

4. With what are all the important people in Allende's life associated?

5. What was initially used to preserve food in hot countries?

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