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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. How big were English large pizzas according to Judt?

2. How many people live in Mexico City?

3. What is a dangerous word according to "Edge People"?

4. When was the song "Love Me DO" released?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict does Judt explore in the essay?

2. What was trendy in "Part Two: Revolutionaries"?

3. When did Judt attend King's College of Cambridge according to "Part Two: Meritocrats"?

4. What study did Judt think was ludicrous in "Part Three: Edge People"?

5. What personal history does Judt recount in "Part Two: Work"?

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

7. What did Judt spend hours listening to?

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 did Judt prefer to live on?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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