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

2. What 1956 car was sexily aerodynamic according to Judt?

3. What did Judt usually save his spare cash to go to?

4. When was the Lee Enfield rifle issued to British servicemen?

5. When did Joe have Judt parsing German sentences at?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Judt bring the reader through?

3. What mainstream obsessions did Judt take part in according to "Part Two: Kibbutz"?

4. Who was Paul Craddock and what did he lack?

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

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

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

8. What would happen once he was placed in his bed by his nurse?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role that anti-Semitism played in the life of Tony Judt.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss anti-sexual harassment protection in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Judt's experience in living in a post-war society such as Britain.

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