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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of food does Bourdain consider a safe leftover?
(a) Soup.
(b) Wine.
(c) Bread.
(d) Cheese.

2. What type of soup does Bourdain eat that changes his life?
(a) Cucumber soup.
(b) Gumbo.
(c) Vichyssoise.
(d) French onion soup.

3. How does Bourdain describe Bigfoot?
(a) Menacing, talentless, and diabolic.
(b) Brilliant, cunning, and intellectual.
(c) Charming, energetic, and knowledgeable.
(d) Meek, quiet, and clumsy.

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

5. What sorts of food does Bourdain begin to eat after his trip to France?
(a) Sashimi and raw eel.
(b) Anything spicy.
(c) Deer and moose meat and exotic fruits and vegetables.
(d) Stinky cheese, sweetbreads, and horsemeat.

6. To what does Bourdain compare the size of the Rainbow Room kitchen?
(a) A football stadium.
(b) An airport hangar.
(c) An elevator.
(d) A closet.

7. How long does Bourdain work at the Rainbow Room?
(a) A year and a half.
(b) Four months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Two years.

8. According to Bourdain, what are most line cooks?
(a) High school dropouts.
(b) Social misfits.
(c) Culinary geniuses.
(d) Immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.

9. What does Bourdain do to Luis to gain respect from his co-workers?
(a) Bourdain jabs Luis' hand with a fork.
(b) Bourdain ignores Luis completely.
(c) Bourdain throws a bucket of fish guts at Luis.
(d) Bourdain punches Luis.

10. Where does Bourdain meet Bigfoot?
(a) At the Culinary Institute.
(b) At a vegetable market.
(c) At Mario's restaurant.
(d) In France.

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

12. Where is the summerhouse that Bourdain shares with his friends?
(a) Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
(b) Portland, Maine.
(c) Manchester, New Hampshire.
(d) Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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

14. For whom does Bourdain have disdain?
(a) Restaurant critics.
(b) Customers who dine and dash.
(c) Vegetarians.
(d) Vegans.

15. What must Bourdain endure at CIA?
(a) Out-of-date appliances.
(b) Buffet-style dishes.
(c) Alienation from classmates.
(d) Pompous teachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the qualities that Bourdain most values in a line cook?

3. Where is the Rainbow Room located?

4. What year does Bourdain start working with Sam G and Dimitri in New York?

5. What does Bourdain admit from the get-go?

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