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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the "Captive Mind' published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1953.

2. What years did the French Revolution take place?
(a) 1789-1794.
(b) 1789-1795.
(c) 1798-1804.
(d) 1778-1784.

3. When did Toni die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1943.

4. Where was Jan Kavan exiled from?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Russia.
(d) Poland.

5. Why were many Jews of Germany resented before WWII?
(a) They had power.
(b) They considered themselves as German.
(c) They didn't considered themselves as German.
(d) They had money.

6. How long did Judt hold a fellowship at Cambridge?
(a) 16 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 2 years.

7. When was Sir John Shepherd born?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1882.

8. Who was president in France during May 1968?
(a) Mendes France.
(b) Valery Giscar D'estain.
(c) George Pompidou.
(d) Charles de Gaulle.

9. How many people live in Mexico City?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 8 million.
(c) 28 million.
(d) 18 million.

10. What did Switzerland mean for Judt according to "Magic Mountain"?
(a) Mountain.
(b) Valley.
(c) Ski.
(d) Peace.

11. What was particular about the woman who brought suit against the NYU?
(a) She was delirious.
(b) She was a serial suer.
(c) She was a He.
(d) She was after the money.

12. When was Philip Snowden the British Labour Chancellor?
(a) 1929 - 1932.
(b) 1929 - 1931.
(c) 1929 - 1933.
(d) 1929 - 1934.

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

14. What disease did Judt's father have scars from?
(a) Polio.
(b) Meningitis.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Small pox.

15. What sport did Judt play in Cambridge?
(a) Rugby.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Golf.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Judt work variously as a deliverer of carpets, warehouse supplies, and domestic dry goods?

2. Why did a female student think Judt was discriminating against her ?

3. When did Alexander Pope say "True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest, What oft was Thought, but ne'er so well Exprest"?

4. When was Judt chairman of the History Department at New York University according to "Girls, Girls, Girls"?

5. When did Meyer London emigrate to New York?

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