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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 does Tess refer to Simone as in Summer?

2. Why does Tess order Assam from Jake?

3. What does Simone tell Tess in Autumn that she will help her learn how to do?

4. What name is Tess given when she starts at the restaurant?

5. Why does Ariel say she is in a war with Scott?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the food lesson on taste described?

2. Why does Tess refer to Jake as Sweaty-Boy?

3. Why does the staff need to understand the ways of the rich?

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

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

6. How does Simone define abundance to Tess?

7. What does Sasha mean when he says Tess is now in the marge?

8. What does Tess find out about Simone and Jake's history in Autumn?

9. Why does Chef scream at Tess when she drops the plate?

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

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

Tess feels that she begins to level out at the end of Autumn. What made her so overwhelmed previously and how did that affect all aspects of her life in New York?

Essay Topic 3

Tess declares that she is different from most people and that she can have it all. Why does Tess vacillate so drastically between feeling positively and negatively about her abilities and her future?

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