View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position is Tess hired as?
(a) Waitstaff.
(b) Pianist.
(c) Backwaiter.
(d) Singer.

2. Which food lesson does the story open with?
(a) Palate.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Plate.
(d) Platitude.

3. What does Simone warn Tess she needs to be more of?
(a) Self-aware.
(b) Shameless.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Shameful.

4. Why does Tess go to Simone's apartment in Autumn?
(a) To get books.
(b) As a surprise.
(c) To party.
(d) For dinner.

5. What is Jake's position at the restaurant?
(a) Host.
(b) Backwaiter.
(c) Bartender.
(d) Bouncer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Tess gives for why the girl Howard interviews in Autumn will not be hired?

2. What does Tess compare the table grapes to in Autumn?

3. Which food lesson is said to be the fifth taste?

4. Which food lesson meant poison when people were wild?

5. Who asks Tess out on a date during Summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Simone tell Tess to set up a meeting with Howard in Autumn?

2. How does Tess classify herself compared to her old classmate?

3. Quotations from which two writer's are in the epigraph?

4. What profession does Tess compare being a server to?

5. Why does Jake say he may have to protect Tess from Simone?

6. What does Sasha tell Tess, in Summer, that Jake would do to her?

7. Why does Tess have such a difficult time learning on the job?

8. What does Tess think is strange about how The Owner describes staff and guests?

9. What was the first big secret about a guest Simone shared with Tess?

10. How does Simone define abundance to Tess?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 559 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample