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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What card game was Judt taught at the Chalet?
(a) Bridge.
(b) Poker.
(c) Tarot.
(d) Cagnasta.

3. How many of Judt's uncles served with the 8th Army during the war?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. How many platforms did Clapham Junction have?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

5. Where did Judt's father spend his youth according to "Food"?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

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

7. When did Cambridge start to accept female students?
(a) 1975
(b) 1972.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

8. What bus did Judt take to go to school?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 25.
(d) 16.

9. Who were the young people with the foul language at the Chalet?
(a) Actors.
(b) Salesmen.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Professional Skier.

10. What did Judt usually save his spare cash to go to?
(a) Moviecam News Theater.
(b) Moviewas News Theater.
(c) Moviestash News Theater.
(d) Movietone News Theater.

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

12. How were the cars loaded on the SS Dinard?
(a) By valets.
(b) By crane.
(c) By forklift.
(d) No cars were allowed.

13. How many cars of his favorite brand did Judt's father own during Judt's childhood?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 19.

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

15. What did Judt's mother have no idea how to prepare?
(a) Jewish food.
(b) Porridge.
(c) Strudel.
(d) Belgian food.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Judt diagnosed with ALS?

2. How many students did the ENS have at any time?

3. What did Judt give his bedder for Christmas?

4. What was the name of Judt's bedder?

5. Why did most middle class families not have servants according to the "Bedders"?

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