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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were clothes rationed until after WWII?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1949.

2. When was the last Green Bus of the day during the 1960s?
(a) 7 P.M.
(b) 9 P.M.
(c) 6 P.M.
(d) 10 P.M.

3. Why were the bedders somewhat of an anachronism when Judt attend school?
(a) Most of the students never had a servant.
(b) Most of the students had Indian servants.
(c) Most of the students had more than one servant.
(d) Most of the students had male servants.

4. Where is Amartya Sen from according to "Paris Was Yesterday"?
(a) India.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Bangladesh.
(d) Pakistan.

5. When did the girls in Oxbridge have to leave the men's bedrooms by?
(a) 9 P.M.
(b) 11 P.M.
(c) 8 P. M.
(d) 10 P.M.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocked Judt in his time on the Golan Heights after the Six Days War?

2. Why are Judt's hands placed outside the blanket?

3. How many cars of his favorite brand did Judt's father own during Judt's childhood?

4. How many platforms did Clapham Junction have?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Judt explain his love of?

2. Where was Judt accepted?

3. What did cars symbolize for Judt's generation in "Part One: Cars"?

4. What did the bus happen to do in "Part One: The Green Line Bus"?

5. What common things did Judt's father dislike and what did he crave after moving to Britain in adulthood?

6. What is different about the Green Line today with that in the past?

7. What location did Judt's family frequent in the 1950s?

8. What was painful to note for Judt?

9. What did Judt have a deep affection for in "Part Two: Paris was Yesterday"?

10. What does Tony Judt explain about the essays in the collection in the "Preface"?

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