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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Meritocrats, Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is preferred today to artifice in language according to Judt?
(a) "Showmanship".
(b) "Natural" expression.
(c) "Articulation".
(d) "Grandiloquence".

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

3. What is the primary employer of students out of the ENS?
(a) Banks.
(b) Higher education.
(c) International firms.
(d) The French State.

4. What were cars representing for some born between the wars?
(a) Vacation.
(b) Freedom and prosperity.
(c) The New Deal.
(d) Freedom from mass transport.

5. What came in rectangular, medicine-like containers during post WWII rationing?
(a) Orange juice.
(b) Milk.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Amartya Sen from according to "Paris Was Yesterday"?

2. What shift did Judt have during his trip to Israel?

3. Who owned the Green Line Bus at the time of the book writing?

4. What was Judt's mother's profession?

5. What is the cockroach in reference to?

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