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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Day in the Life and Sous-Chef.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the best nights for eating out?
(a) Tuesday through Saturday.
(b) Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
(c) Monday through Friday.
(d) Saturday and Sunday.

2. What do Bourdain and Dimitri make that causes the guests to have fits of pain?
(a) A scalding hot minestrone soup.
(b) A pepper-loaded Chinese meal.
(c) Nearly-raw chicken parmesan.
(d) A salmon dish with bone fragments.

3. Bourdain does not understand anyone with a preference for what?
(a) Medium rare meat.
(b) Blue meat.
(c) Well done meat.
(d) Rare meat.

4. What does Bourdain witness for the first time at the restaurant he works at with Sam G and Dimitri?
(a) "Burnt Toast Syndrome."
(b) "Running Customer Syndrome".
(c) "Lazy Chef Syndrome."
(d) "Failing Restaurant Syndrome".

5. What does the role of the line cook require?
(a) Loyalty and endurance.
(b) Good memory.
(c) Two fast hands.
(d) Someone who can multitask.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Bourdain determined to enroll during the early 1970's?

2. Why is Bourdain in a low period when Bigfoot hires him?

3. What is Bourdain determined to do during his summer break after his first year at CIA?

4. According to Bourdain, what is just as critical as a cook's knives?

5. What makes someone succeed in restaurant ownership?

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