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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does owning a restaurant feed besides the customers?
(a) One's bank account.
(b) One's creativity.
(c) The kitchen staff.
(d) An ego.

2. Where is the Rainbow Room located?
(a) Empire State Building.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Times Square.
(d) Rockefeller Center.

3. How does Bourdain describe the line cooks in most kitchens?
(a) As young and irresponsible.
(b) As sweaty and high-strung.
(c) As hard workers.
(d) As dysfunctional types.

4. Where is Bourdain determined to enroll during the early 1970's?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard Law School.
(c) Le Cordon Bleu.
(d) The Culinary Institute of America.

5. What year does Bourdain graduate high school?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bourdain realize in Vienne?

2. What does Bourdain witness for the first time at the restaurant he works at with Sam G and Dimitri?

3. How does Bourdain feel during his time at college?

4. According to Bigfoot, what is more important than lapses in judgment or destructive behavior?

5. What does Bourdain do while in France with his family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bourdain get a job during his summer from school and how does he feel about this job?

2. What does Bourdain realize while listening in on his workers' banter?

3. Discuss the role of the line cook.

4. What is Bourdain's view of the cooking world in the early 1970's?

5. How does Bourdain find the classes at the CIA?

6. What does Adam mean when he tells Bourdain to "Feed the bitch or she'll die!"

7. What are the three categories of the line cook?

8. What do his parents not allow Bourdain and his brother to do and how does this affect Bourdain?

9. What is Bourdain tolerant of when it comes to his workers?

10. What does Bourdain do during the day to get ready for the dinner service?

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