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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. When did Meyer London emigrate to New York?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1891.

3. What was Claude's profession?
(a) Barrista.
(b) Patissier.
(c) Drycleaner.
(d) Hairdresser.

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

5. When was "The Uses of Literacy" published?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1954.

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

7. What did Poliakoff build?
(a) The Russian railway.
(b) The first Russian plane.
(c) The Russian road system.
(d) The Russian factory system.

8. How many books did the Library of the University of Indiana have?
(a) 5.2 million.
(b) 17.8 million.
(c) 7.2 million.
(d) 7.8 million.

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

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

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

12. When was NYU founded?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1856.

13. When did Judt go to Berkeley?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1977.

14. In what country can you have snow cheaper than in Switzerland ?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What policy were the students of 1968 opposed to?

2. How old was Judt when he started working at W.H. Smith?

3. Who rode the Manhattan canyons according to Judt?

4. When was Miłosz born?

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

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