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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. How does the jungle appear to visitors?
(a) Full of wild animals.
(b) Only green.
(c) Scary.
(d) A wonderful place to find food.

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

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

4. What is a very close second best aphrodisiac?
(a) Wine.
(b) Love.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Variety.

5. What does Allende caution?
(a) Readers to be in love.
(b) Readers to be careful with words.
(c) Readers to avoid technological aphrodisiacs.
(d) Readers to be careful with aphrodisiacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allende speculate?

2. How does Allende feel about meat being an aphrodisiac?

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

4. What has Christianity taught about the senses and appetites?

5. What is the purpose of excess consumption of both food and sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history of kept men?

2. How is something considered an aphrodisiac?

3. Describe sheep shearing season.

4. What makes sex truly fulfilling?

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

6. What is nouvelle cuisine?

7. What is the last section of the chapter?

8. What is Allende's connection with forget-me-nots?

9. What does Allende once plan for a beau? What was the outcome?

10. How does Catherine the Great become a ruler?

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