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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Judt characterize his generation in "Meritocrats"?
(a) Wasted.
(b) Superior.
(c) Transitional.
(d) The first intellectual.

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

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

4. When was Annie Hall released?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1985.

5. What was the miles per gallon rating of the Buick LeSabre according to Judt?
(a) 10 miles per gallon.
(b) 5 miles per gallon.
(c) 15 miles per gallon.
(d) 20 miles per gallon.

6. What does Zakhor mean?
(a) Remember.
(b) Fight.
(c) Pay.
(d) Love.

7. What did Switzerland urge Hitler to do?
(a) Have a "J" on the passports of Jewish.
(b) Have secret accounts.
(c) Take away Jewish money.
(d) Launder their money in Switzerland.

8. How many other students were in the class Judt took to learn a new language?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

9. When did Judt divorce his consecutive wives?
(a) 1977 and 1987.
(b) 1978 and 1989.
(c) 1978 and 1986.
(d) 1977 and 1986.

10. How many "world cities" did Judt live in?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

11. How big were English large pizzas according to Judt?
(a) 7 inches.
(b) 9 inches.
(c) 12 inches.
(d) 10 inches.

12. Where were the sherries of Judt's youth from according to "Go West, Young Judt"?
(a) Poland.
(b) U.S.A.
(c) South Africa.
(d) France.

13. From what club would Judt gladly be excluded?
(a) Modern English intellectuals.
(b) Modern Polish intellectuals.
(c) Modern American intellectuals.
(d) Modern French intellectuals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is preferred today to artifice in language according to Judt?

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

3. How long did Judt hold a fellowship at Cambridge?

4. What is the point of adult existence according to Judt?

5. Where was Judt teaching in the early 1980s?

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