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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Judt teaching in the early 1980s?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cambridge.

2. How did Judt go to Israel?
(a) Ferry and then by car.
(b) By plane.
(c) Ferry and then by train.
(d) A freighter.

3. What was Judt the first in his family to do?
(a) Complete secondary school.
(b) Boxed at a high level.
(c) Play Rugby professionaly.
(d) Complete college.

4. 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.

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

6. What was the name of Toni's older sister?
(a) Lili.
(b) Ansel.
(c) Roberta.
(d) Etha.

7. What is "BBE"?
(a) Before Bush Era.
(b) Before Bombs Era.
(c) Before Beatles Era.
(d) Before Burnimgam Era.

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

9. Who had a sound theological basis for restricting their desires and those of others?
(a) The Puritans.
(b) The Catholics.
(c) The British.
(d) The Mornons.

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

11. Where was Judt's father born?
(a) Antwerp.
(b) Brussel.
(c) Anahiem.
(d) Paris.

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

13. When did Judt first go to the U.S.?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1975.

14. When was Miłosz born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1913.

15. What was the former profession of the student Judt counseled during his semester off?
(a) Translator.
(b) Ballerina.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Bus driver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rode the Manhattan canyons according to Judt?

2. When was NYU founded?

3. How many Jews attend Synagogue at least once a month in the U.S.?

4. When was Sir John Shepherd born?

5. What did Switzerland urge Hitler to do?

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