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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. What card game was Judt taught at the Chalet?
(a) Poker.
(b) Tarot.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Cagnasta.

2. What is England a magnet for according to "The Lord Warden"?
(a) Job seekers.
(b) Manual laborers.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Former American soldiers.

3. How many of Judt's uncles served with the 8th Army during the war?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. When did Raymond Aron arrive at the ENS?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1923.

5. What did Judt give his bedder for Christmas?
(a) A box of chocolates.
(b) Clothes.
(c) A teddy bear.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Renault nationalized after the War?

2. What does Judt love that loved him back according to "Mimetic Desire"?

3. What is the cockroach in reference to?

4. What projects did the government commit itself to after the war that always failed?

5. What were the names of the women in charge of looking after young men at Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Judt spend the majority of the essay "Part One: Putney" describing?

2. How was Judt's family environmentally conscious according to "Part One: Austerity"?

3. What did Judt attend in London and what did many teachers believe in "Part Two: Joe"?

4. What did Judt seek release from and where was he accepted?

5. What connection does Judt make in regards to the environment and his own history?

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

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

8. How did Judt's mother's cooking contrast with Judt's paternal grandmother's cooking?

9. What did Judt typically purchase when he was able to cook for himself?

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

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