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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 spices are on this list?
(a) Poisonous spices.
(b) Unusual spices.
(c) Many of the more common spices.
(d) Unique and hard to find spices.

2. What do Allende and Shekter brainstorm?
(a) Known aphrodisiacs.
(b) Places to travel looking for aphrodisiacs.
(c) Vacations to take.
(d) How to bring about world peace.

3. With what are all eggs associated?
(a) Birds.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Fertility.

4. What is a practice Allende has personally witnessed?
(a) Eating snails out of the shells.
(b) Eating insects.
(c) Eating love philters.
(d) Eating reptiles.

5. What details does Allende include about meat?
(a) What her most and least favorites are.
(b) Where the various animals originated.
(c) What it looks and tastes like.
(d) How each meat is processed and prepared.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lola Montez invent the Tarantula?

2. Who does Catherine the Great marry?

3. What happened when Allende began making bread regularly?

4. With what are all the important people in Allende's life associated?

5. What happened to Bobbitt's porn career after his penis was reattached?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the last section of the chapter?

2. How does Allende feel about making bread?

3. What does Allende learn about from her mother's experience in Turkey?

4. Describe the professor's pursuit of Colomba.

5. How is the cheese at the processing plant?

6. What does the mistress do to kill her lover?

7. Why do domestic birds not have aphrodisiac qualities?

8. Why does Allende question the aphrodisiac qualities of coffee?

9. What is the origin of forks, knives, and spoons?

10. What do the professor and Colomba find, when they return to the picnic spot?

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