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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Judt associate English food with?

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

3. When was St. Mary's established?

4. When was Judt diagnosed with ALS?

5. What came in rectangular, medicine-like containers during post WWII rationing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Judt reflect on the presence of in "Part Two: Bedders"?

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

3. What was painful to note for Judt?

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

5. What did his memory help him cope with?

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

7. Why did Judt feel uncomfortable in his youth?

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

9. Why was a bedder nearly inconsolable?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine why it was considered trendy to be a social revolutionary in the 1960s.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the background of Czeslaw Milosz and his personal beliefs and Judts's interpretations regarding ketman.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Judt's diagnosis of ALS and how his memories helped him cope with his paralysis.

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