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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. How were the cars loaded on the SS Dinard?

2. What made students "Gormless!" according to Joe?

3. What does Judt love that loved him back according to "Mimetic Desire"?

4. What were cars representing for some born between the wars?

5. What bus did Judt take to go to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Judt's mother's cooking contrast with Judt's paternal grandmother's cooking?

2. What were many students uncomfortable with?

3. What does Judt bring the reader through?

4. What did the bus happen to do in "Part One: The Green Line Bus"?

5. What connection does Judt make in regards to the environment and his own history?

6. What did Judt seek release from and where was he accepted?

7. What was painful to note for Judt?

8. What location did Judt's family frequent in the 1950s?

9. What did Judt struggle with and what did he thrive in?

10. What mainstream obsessions did Judt take part in according to "Part Two: Kibbutz"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Judt's obsession with mainstream obsessions with his time as part of the Zionist movement.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the background of Czeslaw Milosz and his personal beliefs and Judts's interpretations regarding ketman.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Judt's account of his history in the workforce and the theme from the essay "Work."

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