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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 does Allende speculate?

2. What is a practice Allende has personally witnessed?

3. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?

4. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?

5. What attracts Allende to her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the hero save the woman?

2. Describe the sense of taste.

3. Of what does this chapter consist?

4. What makes sex truly fulfilling?

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

6. What happens after Allende's grandmother's death?

7. What is Tantra?

8. What is a fugu?

9. What is the history of tea?

10. Why do domestic birds not have aphrodisiac qualities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Accepted gender roles are challenged.

Part 1) What is an example of an accepted gender role mentioned in this book?

Part 2) How is this gender role challenged?

Part 3) What is Allende's opinion on this gender role?

Essay Topic 2

The author discusses etiquette.

Part 1) How do most cultures eat meals?

Part 2) Why do Europeans begin using forks, knives, and spoons?

Part 3) What is the relationship between restrictions and desire?

Essay Topic 3

Certain birds have aphrodisiac qualities.

Part 1) What type of birds have aphrodisiac qualities?

Part 2) Why do some birds not have aphrodisiac qualities? What type of birds are these?

Part 3) What does Allende note about doves?

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