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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do runners do?
(a) Clean the floors and counters in the restaurant.
(b) Do small tasks in the kitchen for the chef.
(c) Help deliver food and provide surveillance for the chef.
(d) Purchase ingredients at the markets.

2. How many hours is Bourdain's flight to Tokyo?
(a) Fourteen hours.
(b) Eleven hours.
(c) Twelve hours.
(d) Sixteen hours.

3. What sorts of customers does Tom H attract?
(a) Celebrities and gossip columnists.
(b) Foodies.
(c) Artists and writers.
(d) Jocks and sports agents.

4. Besides culinary proficiency, what determines a person's kitchen success?
(a) A person's ability to show up on time and learn quickly.
(b) A person's ability to take and give insults.
(c) A person's ability to handle any situation.
(d) A person's ability to upstage the chef.

5. What is a Queez?
(a) An irate customer.
(b) A Cuisinart food processor.
(c) A restaurant critic.
(d) The sous-chef.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does six-top mean?

2. What do Bourdain's purveyors know not to do?

3. Who is the second most important person in the restaurant after the chef?

4. What does Bourdain order for his first meal in Japan?

5. At what point does Bourdain realize it is time to fire a worker?

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