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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Howard's title at the restaurant?

2. What state is the staff in during brunch in Autumn?

3. What foods do Simone and Tess eat during her lesson in Autumn?

4. How is Tess supposed to refer to customers?

5. What is the meal called that all staff partake in before opening?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What breakthrough about life does Tess have out of life in Autumn?

3. How does Tess answer Howard's question about a challenge she has overcome?

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

5. What does Tess notice about Jake and Simone?

6. Why is Tess turned away when she tries to enter New York?

7. What group of people are loyal customers to the restaurant since the beginning?

8. How is the food lesson on taste described?

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

10. What is the Excellence Reflex?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Of all the lessons Tess learns at the restaurant, which seem to stay with her, and for better or worse, teach her the most? Are any of the lessons transferable to the reader's life?

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Thanatos means and why Howard would choose to share this story with Tess when he does. Include how Tess processes the theory and how the death drive relates to Tess' life.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the poem of restaurant staff conversations on pages 98-100. Explain why the last line is particularly poignant in regards to Tess' life. What fear is she trying to overcome?

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