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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What triggers a man's sexual impulses?

2. What is the greatest drawback to eating shellfish?

3. How does Allende feel about these practices?

4. What does she write for this person?

5. Why does Allende's stepson make adjustments on the bread machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a fugu?

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

3. What makes sex truly fulfilling?

4. What is the history of kept men?

5. What is the jungle to its inhabitants?

6. What is nouvelle cuisine?

7. How is something considered an aphrodisiac?

8. When does Allende first see cheese being made?

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

10. How does Allende begin this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Catherine the Great ruled her country for half a century.

Part 1) How does become the ruler of her country?

Part 2) Why is she included in this book?

Part 3) What is the significance of Catherine the Great's daily breakfast of a caviar omelet?

Essay Topic 2

Allende travels to the Amazon jungle.

Part 1) What does the jungle mean to its inhabitants?

Part 2) What are two activities in which she partakes with the natives?

Part 3) How does Allende How does Allende describe the food she eats in the jungle?

Essay Topic 3

Allende has memories of private orgies organized by her step-father for her mother.

Part 1) What intrigues Allende about orgies?

Part 2) Name two reasons the author gives for the purpose of orgies.

Part 3) Why is the Christian church against orgies, according to this book?

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