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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Language of Flowers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Allende's mother realize while in Turkey?
(a) Turkish people do not drink wine.
(b) Turkey does not allow the production of wine.
(c) Good quality wine was difficult to find.
(d) There was an over-abundance of wine.

4. What are there more of than there are countries in the world?
(a) Cows.
(b) Cheese processing plants.
(c) Dairy farms.
(d) Flavors and consistencies in cheese.

5. How does Allende feel about the waiters, menus, and dishes served in the nouvelle restaurants?
(a) She does not trust them.
(b) She loves them.
(c) She is encouraged by them.
(d) She is proud of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sturgeon?

2. What has Allende always wanted?

3. What do beluga, ossetra, and sevruga have in common?

4. What includes drinking the animal's blood first with some strong, sweet liquor?

5. What does Allende believe is the most powerful aphrodisiac?

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