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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Mimetic Desire, The Lord Warden.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was food rationed until after WWII?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1954.

2. What was Judt's wife instructed to do at a Chinese restaurant according to "Austerity"?
(a) Use bikes.
(b) Deliver in cardboard cartons.
(c) Use electric cars.
(d) Recycled their boxes.

3. What is closed to the tourist on today's ferries?
(a) The bridge.
(b) The lower decks.
(c) The main decks.
(d) The engine room.

4. Why was Renault nationalized after the War?
(a) The founder was a collaborator.
(b) The company was in too much debt.
(c) The founder was killed during the war.
(d) The founder wanted to retire.

5. What are Judt's children depressingly knowledgeable of?
(a) P.E.T.A.
(b) Climate change.
(c) WWII.
(d) World peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Judt's uncles served with the 8th Army during the war?

2. What angle was Judt's bed reclined at?

3. When was the Golden Arrow inaugurated?

4. What did Judt's mother have no idea how to prepare?

5. How long did the average bus trip take on the Green Line?

(see the answer key)

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