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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Inside the CIA and The Return of Mal Carne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Bourdain and Dimitri make that causes the guests to have fits of pain?
(a) A pepper-loaded Chinese meal.
(b) A scalding hot minestrone soup.
(c) Nearly-raw chicken parmesan.
(d) A salmon dish with bone fragments.

2. What has yet to arrive in the culinary world in the 1970's?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Fondue.
(c) Celebrity chefs.
(d) The desire to try cuisine from different cultures.

3. What does the owner of Mario's select Bourdain to do?
(a) Revamp his menu.
(b) Cater a large garden party.
(c) Test out his new dishes.
(d) Hand out fliers.

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

5. How does Bourdain feel about the chef at the restaurant, Mario's?
(a) Bourdain despises him.
(b) Bourdain feels he is talentless.
(c) Bourdain respects him.
(d) Bourdain is in awe of him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bourdain, what does good cooking and good eating involve?

3. What kind of restaurant is the place where Bourdain works in the early 1970's?

4. Whom has the instructor for the Escoffier Room been rumored to have worked with?

5. How is the chef at Mario's described?

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