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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 Bill ask the person who fixed him the best pasta he ever tasted?
(a) If he could take her receipe.
(b) If she could teach him.
(c) If she would write a book with him.
(d) If she would come with him to Italy.

2. What is the name of Panzano's oldest church?
(a) Il pieve de San Bernado.
(b) Il Sampre fi.
(c) La Pieve di San Leolino
(d) Il Santo Fermi.

3. When did Bill arrive at Dario's shop?
(a) On a Thursday.
(b) On a Monday.
(c) On a Saturday.
(d) On a Sunday.

4. Who was in charge of Giovanni's cows?
(a) Roberto.
(b) Arno.
(c) Beppe.
(d) Phelippe.

5. What did Batali encourage his waiters to do?
(a) Try to get big tips from critics.
(b) Act natural.
(c) Forbid critics from entering.
(d) Watch for critics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Dario give Bill?

2. What were Bill and his wife tired of at the end of Chapter 24?

3. Why was Batali worried in Chapter 29?

4. What was Batali happy with even as he missed his 4 stars?

5. What made Bill think butchers of different regions have different ways of cutting the meat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who did Bill call for a job?

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

4. What did Bill want to research at the end of Chapter 29?

5. What did Bill eventually find?

6. What did Bill eventually find it impossible to do in?

7. Who suggested that Bill and Mark go to Italy?

8. Why did everyone in the town talk about Giovanni's bull according to Chapter 27?

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

10. What did Bill arrange to buy when he and his wife returned to New York in Chapter 24?

(see the answer keys)

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