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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ocean creature does not belong in the same category as fish?
(a) Turtle.
(b) Swordfish.
(c) Angelfish.
(d) Shark.

3. Who does Catherine the Great marry?
(a) An ugly, gluttonous man.
(b) A handsome prince.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) An old scholar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Anais Nin writing a letter?

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

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

4. When does this story originate?

5. What does the author Isabel Allende discuss in the introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the best aphrodisiac vegetables?

2. Describe Allende's friend's blind date.

3. What is the cautionary tale Allende tells?

4. What is Allende's purpose in writing this book?

5. Upon what do the sensual qualities of vegetables depend?

6. What are unclassifiables?

7. How does Allende feel about making bread?

8. What is Allende's opinion of nouvelle cuisine?

9. What does Allende write for each fruit listed?

10. What is Allende's connection with forget-me-nots?

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