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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. Where is home according to the saying in "Putney"?

2. What was The Lord Warden threatened by in the 1960s and 1970s?

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

4. When did Judt attend Emanuel School in Battersea according to "Joe"?

5. Why was Renault nationalized after the War?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was a bedder nearly inconsolable?

3. What movement did Judt join in the 1960s?

4. How was everyone in England banded together?

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

6. What was painful to note for Judt?

7. What did Judt struggle with and what did he thrive in?

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

9. What is the theory of mimetic desire in "Part One: Mimetic Desire"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the comparison Judt makes between Winston Churchill and George W. Bush.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare the revolutions at Cambridge with that of Polish and Czech students.

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