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

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

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

4. What years did the French Revolution take place?
(a) 1778-1784.
(b) 1789-1794.
(c) 1798-1804.
(d) 1789-1795.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country can you have snow cheaper than in Switzerland ?

2. Where was Judt teaching in the early 1980s?

3. What did the Brescia region municipality promise during Christmas 2009?

4. What disease did Judt's father have scars from?

5. Why were many Jews of Germany resented before WWII?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Toni?

2. What conflict does Judt explore in the essay?

3. What did Judt do during his midlife crisis in "Midlife Crisis"?

4. What was Judt surrounded by as a child in "Part Two: Words"?

5. Where did Judt visit a few years before onset of his disease in "Part Three: Captive Minds"?

6. What does Judt remember about all his family vacations?

7. What aspect does a "world city" have according to Judt?

8. What did public universities boast?

9. What cities do not spring to mind when one considers a "world city" in "Part Three: New York, New York"?

10. What was the university where Judt worked in the 1990s rife with according to "Part Three: Girls, Girls, Girls"?

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