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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 did the sous chef do to Bill during the night in Chapter 15?
(a) He transferred him to the prep kitchen.
(b) He ignored him all night.
(c) He gave him contradictory orders.
(d) He stood over his shoulder waiting for him to make a mistake.

2. What did Batali do to Dominic when Dominic bumped into him?
(a) He slapped him.
(b) He told him to take the night off.
(c) He fired him.
(d) He dressed him down.

3. What magazine did Bill Buford found?
(a) "Bon Appetit Magazine."
(b) "Food Magazine."
(c) "Granta Magazine."
(d) "Bien Manger Magazine."

4. What did Batali become when he accepted his first kitchen?
(a) The worst paid chef of his age.
(b) The youngest chef.
(c) The first American to have a kitchen.
(d) The highest paid chef of his age.

5. What newspaper put Mario Batali on the map according to Bill?
(a) "The New York Observer."
(b) "The New York Times."
(c) "The New Yorker."
(d) "The New York Sentinel."

Short Answer Questions

1. What restaurant did Bill eat at in Italy in Chapter 10?

2. What is Ragu?

3. Why did Bill meet with Marco Pierre White?

4. What was Batali's condition when he assigned Bill to the station he begged to be on?

5. What was polenta made of before the 16th century?

Short Essay Questions

1. What station did Bill want to work in Chapter 12?

2. What did Bill become in Chapter 1, and what did it teach Bill?

3. What job did Batali turn down and why?

4. What was Bil's first introduction to kitchen politics in Chapter 3?

5. What did Bill learn about polenta in Chapter 14?

6. What did Bill realize once he started to work at Babbo's?

7. Who is Bill Buford?

8. Where was Batali offered his own kitchen?

9. Who did Bill Buford invite to dinner in "Dinner with Mario"?

10. What did Bill regret?

(see the answer keys)

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