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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through So You Want to be a Chef? A Commencement Address and Kitchen's Closed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does cabron mean?
(a) A man's girlfriend is being intimate with another man.
(b) A lazy worker.
(c) A man is using drugs to forget his problems.
(d) A man who is being used for his money.

3. While Bourdain works at his summer job in the early 1970's, what does he vow?
(a) To go to law school to please his parents.
(b) To learn everything he can about French cuisine.
(c) Not to be stuck in subordinate kitchen roles.
(d) To travel to France again.

4. What does the role of the line cook require?
(a) Good memory.
(b) Someone who can multitask.
(c) Loyalty and endurance.
(d) Two fast hands.

5. What does Bourdain conclude about his culinary journey?
(a) He would not have missed it for anything else in the world.
(b) It has allowed him to see the world differently.
(c) It has made him the man he is today.
(d) It has changed the course of his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the restaurant where Bourdain works during his summer away from college?

2. What does floor or scum refer to?

3. When Adam calls Bourdain telling him "she'll die" what is he referring to?

4. What does Bourdain learn while at the Rainbow Room?

5. What sorts of customers does Tom H attract?

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