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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. With what are all the important people in Allende's life associated?
(a) Specific foods.
(b) Specific smell.
(c) One type of food.
(d) Specific sounds.

2. Why do people today turn to ever-stranger aphrodisiacs?
(a) People love technology.
(b) Little excites or surprises people.
(c) People have nothing better to do.
(d) These aphrodisiacs are available.

3. What does she write for this person?
(a) A collection of short, erotic stories.
(b) A romance novel.
(c) A script for a pornographic movie.
(d) A love letter.

4. Why does the woman strangle the man with a silk muffler?
(a) He looks good in a silk muffler.
(b) To prolong his erection and their pleasure.
(c) She likes to be in control.
(d) He likes silk mufflers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the greatest drawback to eating shellfish?

2. What is a practice Allende has personally witnessed?

3. With what does this chapter deal?

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

5. What does the author Isabel Allende discuss in the introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon what do the sensual qualities of vegetables depend?

2. How is the cheese at the processing plant?

3. How does the hero save the woman?

4. What is the greatest aphrodisiac?

5. What types of recipes can be found?

6. What is the significance of appetite and sex?

7. Describe this list.

8. What are unclassifiables?

9. Describe Allende's friend's blind date.

10. Describe sheep shearing season.

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