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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. What is Red Chili Jelly called in Italy?

2. Who was in charge of Giovanni's cows?

3. Why was the meat of the Chianines tender and much desired?

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

5. What did Bill ask the person who fixed him the best pasta he ever tasted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Dario berate the restaurant owner in Chapter 22?

2. What did Bill eventually find?

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

4. What was Babbo awarded with in 1998 according to Chapter 29?

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

6. What did Bill learn upon his return to Dario's shop in Chapter 25?

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

8. What was Caso Mono and why were some concerned according to Chapter 17?

9. Who did Bill call for a job?

10. Why did Dario become irate in Chapter 26?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how criticism among employees and changes in the kitchen affect the staff and quality of a restaurant.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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