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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Food is Sex and Food is Pain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bourdain learn from assisting the boiler man?
(a) How to keep his station clean.
(b) How to manage the avalanche of meals each night.
(c) How to deal with customers.
(d) How to plate the meals correctly.

2. Where does Bourdain attend college?
(a) Corning Community College.
(b) Buffalo State College.
(c) Berkeley College.
(d) Vassar College.

3. When does Bourdain's love affair with food start?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1977.

4. How does Bourdain feel during his time at college?
(a) Stressed and overworked.
(b) Ambitious and goal-oriented.
(c) Out of place and awkward.
(d) Undisciplined and uninterested.

5. Whom does Bourdain acknowledge?
(a) The professors and teachers at his culinary school.
(b) His publishers and agents.
(c) Those whose talents and credentials supersede his own.
(d) His wife and parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year does Bourdain graduate high school?

2. Where is the summerhouse that Bourdain shares with his friends?

3. What does Bourdain love about Bobby?

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

5. What does Bourdain fish for with the local fishing expert in France?

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