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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. Who owned the SS Dinard?

2. What was the Emanuel School in Battersea modeled after?

3. By what age had Judt become, been, and ceased to be a Zionist, a Marxist, and a communitarian settler?

4. What did the schoolboys attribute Joe's unpredictable temper and apparent lack of humor to?

5. What is the language spoken in the region where the Chalet is according to "The Memory Chalet"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Judt explain his love of?

2. What location did Judt's family frequent in the 1950s?

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

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

5. How does Judt open "Part One: Food"?

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

7. What were many students uncomfortable with?

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

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

10. What does Judt bring the reader through?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Judt's account of his history in the workforce and the theme from the essay "Work."

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Choose a French intellectual and discuss their influence on French society.

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