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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. According to Bourdain, which of the following is not an essential item for home cooks?

2. Why do Bourdain and his colleagues hire people from Latin countries?

3. What are the three categories of line cooks?

4. Why is Bourdain in a low period when Bigfoot hires him?

5. What does Bourdain feel about the early 1970's in terms of the cooking world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the best nights to eat out and why?

2. What is Working Progress?

3. Where and when does Bourdain's love affair with food begin?

4. Describe Bourdain's experience at the restaurant Tom H.

5. Who is Luis?

6. Describe the meal that Bourdain considers the finest meal he has ever eaten.

7. What does Bourdain do after his first year at the CIA?

8. Why does Bourdain not get the job at the steak house?

9. What does the owner of Mario's ask Bourdain and Dimitri to do?

10. What do his parents not allow Bourdain and his brother to do and how does this affect Bourdain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the restaurant business, especially as portrayed in Bourdain's stomping ground, New York City. What is needed to run a successful restaurant? How might someone fail at the task?

Essay Topic 2

What is a memoir? What are the characteristics of a memoir? Discuss why Kitchen Confidential is an example of a memoir.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Bourdain's depiction of a bawdy and crude kitchen environment. How does he view the kitchen environment? What sorts of things take place in the commercial kitchen? What does a person have to be able to endure to make it in the industry?

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