22 março 2008

Chocolate for Easter

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Dear oh dear. It is possible to read at the same time as eating chocolate, you know.

How well do you know the literature of chocolate?

Easter being the traditional religious festival of chocolate, we are honouring this holiest of confections with a chocolate-coated literary quiz. Find out how greedy a reader you are by answering the following questions

Question 1 Which very popular book of recent years culminates in the depiction of a grand Festival du Chocolat on Easter weekend?
A Year in Provence
Trainspotting
Chocolat
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Question 2 Charlie Buckett, the young hero of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, finds his ticket to visit the home of his favourite confectionery in the wrapper of which of these products?
Wonka's Super-rich Cocoa Fantasias With Crispy Crumb
Wonka's Double Chocolate Jeopardy Bars
Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights
Wonka's Treble Trouble Toffeechock Taste Ticklers
Question 3 The hugely popular magical realist story of forbidden love and fancy food, Like Water for Chocolate, was written by
Laura Esquivel
Barbara Cartland
Mario Vargas Llosa
Isabel Allende
Question 4 The Marquis de Sade is reputed to have induced the kind of degenerate orgy of which he was so fond by lacing his guests' chocolate bonbons with
Oyster sauce
Ground goat's horn
Rohipnol
Spanish fly
Question 5 Not entirely surprisingly, chocolate makes a fair few appearances in chick lit. The blurb for one recent example summarises the plot thus: "Four very different women with one thing in common: they can't resist chocolate ... They meet in their sanctuary, Chocolate Heaven, as often as they can, and with a cheating boyfriend who promises he'll change, a flirtatious boss, a gambling husband and a loveless marriage, there's always plenty to discuss!"
Love Galaxy
The Chocolate Lovers' Club
Terry's Place
Cocoa Before Bedtime
Question 6 The sequel, published last year, is called
The Cocoa Cure
Hershey Kisses
Journey to Mars
The Chocolate Lovers' Diet
Question 7 "What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." Whose unusual perspective on warfare is this?
Ernest Hemingway
George Bernard Shaw
Christopher Isherwood
Evelyn Waugh
Question 8 Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton Paterson makes a feature of some very unusual recipes. Which of these delectable dishes appear?
Spam au chocolat
Cocoa Leekie pie
Hot spiced chocolate noodles
Mussels in chocolate
Question 9 "... some kind of record seemed vital/I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / But I loved the title" is an excerpt from which poem?
My Heart is ChicChock Chipped by Paul Muldoon
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
Dreams of White Chocolate by Pam Ayres
When Squirrels Danced With Chocolate Women by André Breton
Question 10 "In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow/ And tremble at the sea that froths below!" A possible early inspiration for today's "death by chocolate" puddings, these lines are from which poem?
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
The Book of Thel by William Blake

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