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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 are the three categories of line cooks?
(a) Fast, faster, and fastest.
(b) Food lovers, money lovers, and adrenaline lovers.
(c) Artists, exiles, and mercenaries.
(d) American, Latin, and Asian.

2. What does Bourdain wish to share with the reader?
(a) The ins and outs of the nation's best culinary schools.
(b) His favorite recipes.
(c) An expose on the kitchens of the top restaurants in America.
(d) The true story about living and working in the culinary profession.

3. How does Bourdain find the classes at CIA?
(a) Challenging.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Easy.
(d) Boring.

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

5. What color is the wedding cake that Bourdain and Dimitri make?
(a) Turquoise.
(b) Ivory.
(c) Taupe.
(d) Saffron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the fishing expert in France?

2. What does Bourdain do after his family vacation to France?

3. Why does Bourdain advise against eating at brunch buffets?

4. Who is the instructor for the Escoffier Room?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bourdain's experience at the restaurant Tom H.

2. What does Bourdain tell anyone considering a career as a chef to consider?

3. What does Bourdain do after a long day at work?

4. What sort of worker does Bourdain value most?

5. Describe the meal that Bourdain considers the finest meal he has ever eaten.

6. Discuss the role of the line cook.

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

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

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

10. What are some of the essential food items that Bourdain lists?

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