Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anthony Bourdain
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Anthony Bourdain
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of food does Bourdain consider a safe leftover?
(a) Soup.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Bread.
(d) Wine.

2. What sorts of food does Bourdain begin to eat after his trip to France?
(a) Stinky cheese, sweetbreads, and horsemeat.
(b) Deer and moose meat and exotic fruits and vegetables.
(c) Sashimi and raw eel.
(d) Anything spicy.

3. Why does Bourdain advise against eating at brunch buffets?
(a) The potential for bacteria is very high.
(b) Buffets never serve well-prepared food.
(c) The food is often stale.
(d) People tend to eat for quantity, not quality.

4. According to Bourdain, what are most line cooks?
(a) Immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.
(b) Social misfits.
(c) High school dropouts.
(d) Culinary geniuses.

5. What kind of restaurant is the place where Bourdain works in the early 1970's?
(a) A fast food restaurant.
(b) A pub.
(c) An upscale restaurant serving French cuisine.
(d) A summer tourist establishment.

6. What is the instructor of Escoffier Room known for?
(a) His flamboyant personality and fashion sense.
(b) His ineptness when it comes to French cuisine.
(c) The relaxed atmosphere of his class.
(d) His unrelenting, despotic instructional techniques.

7. While Bourdain works at his summer job in the early 1970's, what does he vow?
(a) Not to be stuck in subordinate kitchen roles.
(b) To learn everything he can about French cuisine.
(c) To travel to France again.
(d) To go to law school to please his parents.

8. Where is the CIA?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Miami.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

9. What does Bourdain realize in Vienne?
(a) Food is important.
(b) Food is luxury.
(c) Food is necessary to live.
(d) Food is art.

10. What does Bourdain fish for with the local fishing expert in France?
(a) Eel.
(b) Lobster.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Oysters.

11. When does Bourdain's love affair with food start?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1966.

12. How does Bourdain describe the line cooks in most kitchens?
(a) As young and irresponsible.
(b) As dysfunctional types.
(c) As sweaty and high-strung.
(d) As hard workers.

13. How does Bourdain describe Bigfoot?
(a) Meek, quiet, and clumsy.
(b) Brilliant, cunning, and intellectual.
(c) Charming, energetic, and knowledgeable.
(d) Menacing, talentless, and diabolic.

14. For whom does Bourdain have disdain?
(a) Restaurant critics.
(b) Vegetarians.
(c) Vegans.
(d) Customers who dine and dash.

15. What does Bourdain do after his family vacation to France?
(a) Bourdain forgets about his France trip.
(b) Bourdain visits French restaurants in America to compare.
(c) Bourdain immerses himself in the French style of cooking.
(d) Bourdain explores other cultures' cuisines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does Bourdain work at the Rainbow Room?

3. What year does Bourdain graduate high school?

4. According to Bourdain, which of the following is not an essential item for home cooks?

5. Who is the instructor for the Escoffier Room?

(see the answer keys)

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