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

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

3. 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.

4. What includes drinking the animal's blood first with some strong, sweet liquor?
(a) Native American rituals.
(b) Asian cooking traditions.
(c) The preparation of venison stew.
(d) The preparation of turtle soup.

5. What does Allende speculate?
(a) How much better an animal's sense of smell is than a human's.
(b) How people first became attracted to one another by scent.
(c) How humanity might have come to creating scents to be worn on the human body.
(d) Why people first began experimenting with scents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Allende feel about meat being an aphrodisiac?

2. What animal is rich in vitamins, minerals, and protein, low in fate, and has delicious flavor?

3. Of what is wheat a symbol?

4. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?

5. The history orforgies is as varied and colorful as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Robert Shekter become the book's illustrator?

2. How are herbs and spices effective aphrodisiacs?

3. What is the greatest aphrodisiac?

4. What does the modern-day Western world not know about flowers?

5. What is the history of kept men?

6. How does Allende feel about making bread?

7. Describe wine.

8. Why do domestic birds not have aphrodisiac qualities?

9. Describe the sense of taste.

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

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