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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Maestro make Bill put his knife steel?

2. Where did Bill bump his head in the first few weeks of work at the shop?

3. What did Bill do on his first day at Dario's shop?

4. What did Dario's father die of?

5. What made Chianines special?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bill injure himself in the first weeks in the shop according to Chapter 20?

2. Who took over Andy's job, and what happened as a result in Chapter 18?

3. What did Bill eventually find?

4. What did Bill convince his wife to do at the start of Chapter 19?

5. Why did Bill become focused on early recipes verses late recipes?

6. What did Bill admit during the dinner with Batali?

7. What did Bill become obsessed with according to Chapter 16?

8. What happened when an important visitor came to Babbo?

9. In Chapter 23, what was Bill finally allowed to help prepare?

10. Why did Dario become irate in Chapter 26?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bill read a lot of cook books, some several hundred years old and also was taught family recipes that were transferred verbally. Do you think written recipes prevent cooking for evolving or do you think written recipes are worth the trade by promulgating cooking to the masses?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that the reason Batali gave for not completing cooking school were valid? Can his reasoning apply to other professions?

Essay Topic 3

Kitchen politics is an important part of why Bill desired to move on from the Babbo's kitchen. Do you think, based on Bill's writing, that the kitchen is like a military structure or more like an organized chaos.

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