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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the family that owned the restaurant Batali studied at buy after closing the restaurant?
(a) A pizzeria.
(b) An ice cream shop.
(c) A butcher shop.
(d) A cooking school.

2. What did Mario Batali do when invited to Bill's for dinner?
(a) He took over the kitchen.
(b) He talked all night with Bill's wife.
(c) He slept.
(d) He gave advice.

3. What did Bill learn about polenta at Babbo Restaurant?
(a) That it needed a lot of water.
(b) That it needed to be stirred.
(c) That it takes days to cook.
(d) That it should be cooked for hours and not stirred.

4. What promise did Batali and Joe make to Andy?
(a) To let him take over Babbo.
(b) To back him in a Spanish restaurant.
(c) To let him out of his contract.
(d) To let him study in Italy.

5. What stuffed fish did Bill have trouble with at the grill?
(a) Poisoni.
(b) Branzino.
(c) Robini.
(d) Panimelo.

6. How many time did Bill drop or burn the stuffed fish on the grill?
(a) A third of them.
(b) None of them.
(c) All of them.
(d) Half of them.

7. What was Batali's condition when he assigned Bill to the station he begged to be on?
(a) He would have to be second for 6 months.
(b) He would need to prepare the pasta in the prep kitchen first.
(c) He would have to spend two years in Italy.
(d) He would have to make pasta that Batali likes.

8. What station did Bill beg Batali to assign him to?
(a) The sauce station.
(b) The pasta station.
(c) The grill.
(d) The fish station.

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

10. Who did Bill visit the town Batali studied in later on with?
(a) Joe Mariachy.
(b) Ishmael Romm.
(c) Sophia Mentini.
(d) Joe Bastianich.

11. Who was doing the menial work in Babbo's kitchen?
(a) A group of friends.
(b) A group of cousins.
(c) A group of strangers.
(d) A group of brothers.

12. When did Batali move to California according to Chapter 2?
(a) Spring 1988.
(b) Spring 1987
(c) Spring 1986.
(d) Spring 1985.

13. What did Batali insist would be served at the pizzeria despite concern that it was not good?
(a) Flat pizzas.
(b) Calzones.
(c) Meat pizzas.
(d) Deep dish pizzas.

14. Why did Batali initially refuse to transfer Bill to the station he begged for?
(a) Bill was too clumsy.
(b) Bill was not trained in Italy.
(c) He thought Bill was too old to keep up.
(d) Bill was too young.

15. Why was Bill pushed off the grill station?
(a) He wanted to move on.
(b) He dropped a fish.
(c) Batali criticized him.
(d) He had heat stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Batali open his pizzeria in Chapter 15?

2. Who wrote the book Bill found about a 15th century cook?

3. Why did the pastry chef tell Bill he could leave?

4. Why did one of Babbo's worker kill himself?

5. What was Marco Pierre White avid at?

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