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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession is highlighted in "Aphrodisiac Cruelties?"
(a) Cattle butchering.
(b) Horse breaking.
(c) Sheep shearing.
(d) Crocodile hunting.

2. What does the spiritual guru at the conference Allende attends challenge the attendees to do?
(a) Eat no less than twenty grapes in one minute.
(b) Get to know someone else at the conference in one minute.
(c) Try a new aphrodisiac.
(d) Eat a grape in no less than twenty minutes.

3. How does Allende feel about these practices?
(a) She is excited to take part.
(b) She will change her eating habits from this experience.
(c) She is intrigued by them.
(d) She does not appreciate them.

4. What does the "Mea Culpa of the Culpable" section introduce?
(a) The people who collaborated with Allende on this work.
(b) Meats that are considered sensual.
(c) The members of Allende's family.
(d) Various plants that are aphrodisiacs.

5. What is Panchita's art?
(a) Singing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Cooking.

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

7. Who are the gigolo's best clients?
(a) Women.
(b) Gay men.
(c) American men.
(d) French women.

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

9. When does attraction begin in humans?
(a) From a distance, through the eyes.
(b) From a distance, through sound.
(c) During a dinner conversation.
(d) Up close, through smell.

10. What is the purpose of excess consumption of both food and sex?
(a) Have in abundance.
(b) Enjoyment.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Greed.

11. Who took over domestic chores and maternal duties?
(a) The younger women in the home.
(b) Housekeepers and nannies.
(c) The children.
(d) The neighboring women.

12. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?
(a) She loves to be the center of attention.
(b) To woo her subjects.
(c) She loves to dance.
(d) She has an interest in spiders.

13. Why can a family friend not eat chicken for ten years?
(a) He killed a chicken so unsuccessfully that he was traumatized.
(b) He became a Buddhist for ten years.
(c) He found out that many chickens have horrible lives before they are killed.
(d) He does not like the taste of chicken.

14. What were herbs and spices grown in convent and monastery gardens used for?
(a) Aphrodisiac purposes.
(b) Flavoring food.
(c) Medicinal purposes.
(d) Preserving food.

15. What is a delicacy in the Amazon jungle?
(a) Snake skewer.
(b) Broiled alligator.
(c) Fillet of flounder.
(d) Roasted monkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Allende receive a phone call from her stepson, Jason?

2. What attracts Allende to her husband?

3. Why does the lady come up with a plan to kill her lover?

4. With what does this chapter deal?

5. How long have there been kept men in various cultures?

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