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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 was the job of Judt's bedder's daughter-in-law?
(a) She worked at a train station.
(b) She worked at a supermarket.
(c) She worked at a bank.
(d) She worked at a post office.

2. What was the name of Judt's bedder?
(a) Rose.
(b) Catherine.
(c) Martha.
(d) Julia.

3. When did Alexander Pope say "True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest"?
(a) 1753
(b) 1711.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1752.

4. What was the Emanuel School in Battersea modeled after?
(a) 19th centuray barrcaks.
(b) 19th century train stations.
(c) 19th century convents.
(d) 19th century prisons and hospitals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Jews were at Emanuel School in Battersea?

2. What is the cockroach in reference to?

3. How did Judt go to Israel?

4. When was Sir John Shepherd born?

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

(see the answer key)

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