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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Captive Minds, Girls, Girls, Girls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Joe have Judt parsing German sentences at?
(a) After school.
(b) 1 A.M.
(c) During lunch time.
(d) 2 A.M.

2. What is the cockroach in reference to?
(a) Kafka's "A Little Woman".
(b) Kafka's "The Burrow".
(c) Kafka's "Metamorphosis".
(d) Kafka's "Jackals and Arabs".

3. What projects did the government commit itself to after the war that always failed?
(a) Keeping the British Empire intact.
(b) Education reform.
(c) Agricultural reform.
(d) Large scale public housing.

4. When did Judt's father arrive in England?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

5. How old was Judt during the foul language incident at the Chalet?
(a) 11 years old.
(b) 10 years old.
(c) 9 years old.
(d) 12 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Judt spend time working at a Kibbutz?

2. What did the schoolboys attribute Joe's unpredictable temper and apparent lack of humor to?

3. What did Judt give his bedder for Christmas?

4. What was the job of Judt's bedder's daughter-in-law?

5. What is preferred today to artifice in language according to Judt?

(see the answer key)

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