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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is home according to the saying in "Putney"?
(a) Where ones car is.
(b) Where the house is.
(c) Where the heart is.
(d) Where ones friends are.

2. How many students did the ENS have at any time?
(a) 500.
(b) 300.
(c) 200.
(d) 600.

3. When were the five coastal settlements granted special freedoms?
(a) 1755 A.D.
(b) 1105 A.D.
(c) 1155 A.D.
(d) 1255 A.D.

4. When did the Judt family leave Putney?
(a) When Tony was 12.
(b) When Tony was 16.
(c) When Tony was 10.
(d) When Tony was 15.

5. When did Raymond Aron arrive at the ENS?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1925.

6. How many generations of schoolboys did Joe teach German to when Judt was at Emanuel School in Battersea?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

7. When did Judt drop German?
(a) June 1966.
(b) June 1963.
(c) June 1965.
(d) June 1964.

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

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

10. Who owned the Green Line Bus at the time of the book writing?
(a) Maro.
(b) BlueBeagle.
(c) TransBus.
(d) Arriva.

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

12. When did Judt arrive in Paris?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1965.

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

14. How many cars did The Lord Warden accommodate?
(a) 120.
(b) 150.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

15. What did Judt give his bedder for Christmas?
(a) A teddy bear.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Money.
(d) A box of chocolates.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the "Car Culture" come to western Europe?

3. When was the Golden Arrow inaugurated?

4. What cigarettes were intellectuals supposed to smoke according to Judt?

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

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