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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 cigarettes were intellectuals supposed to smoke according to Judt?
(a) Marlboro.
(b) Gitane.
(c) Camel.
(d) Gauloises.

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

3. What is the primary employer of students out of the ENS?
(a) International firms.
(b) The French State.
(c) Higher education.
(d) Banks.

4. When was food rationed until after WWII?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1952.

5. Why did Judt's parents disapprove of fuzzy drinks?
(a) Because of their political views.
(b) Because of tooth decay.
(c) Because of health problems.
(d) Because of the price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Judt's wife instructed to do at a Chinese restaurant according to "Austerity"?

2. What are Judt's children depressingly knowledgeable of?

3. How long did the average bus trip take on the Green Line?

4. When did the girls in Oxbridge have to leave the men's bedrooms by?

5. How old was Judt's sister during the foul language incident at the Chalet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Judt explain his love of?

2. What happened when Judt was 10 years old?

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

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

5. What was The Lord Warden?

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

7. Why was a bedder nearly inconsolable?

8. What does Judt bring the reader through?

9. What did Judt not have a first hand story of?

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

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