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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. How many kinds of tastes are there?
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

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

4. What happens after the woman in the story is stolen by pirates?
(a) She becomes their slave.
(b) She is made to walk to plank.
(c) She is sold into the sultan's harem.
(d) She becomes a pirate.

5. What does Allende say alligator tastes like?
(a) Reconstituted codfish.
(b) Pork.
(c) Fish.
(d) Chicken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Allende and Shekter brainstorm?

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

3. What happened when Allende began making bread regularly?

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

5. What does Allende highlight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare a man and woman's senses of smell.

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

3. What is the history of orgies?

4. Why does Allende question the aphrodisiac qualities of coffee?

5. What is the history of kept men?

6. Describe this list.

7. What are truffles?

8. Describe Spanish Fly.

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

10. What does Allende once plan for a beau? What was the outcome?

(see the answer keys)

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