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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Captive Minds, Girls, Girls, Girls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the bedders somewhat of an anachronism when Judt attend school?
(a) Most of the students had male servants.
(b) Most of the students had Indian servants.
(c) Most of the students never had a servant.
(d) Most of the students had more than one servant.

2. What is preferred today to artifice in language according to Judt?
(a) "Natural" expression.
(b) "Showmanship".
(c) "Grandiloquence".
(d) "Articulation".

3. Who had a sound theological basis for restricting their desires and those of others?
(a) The Mornons.
(b) The Puritans.
(c) The Catholics.
(d) The British.

4. How does Judt characterize his generation in "Meritocrats"?
(a) Transitional.
(b) Superior.
(c) The first intellectual.
(d) Wasted.

5. What did Judt's mother have no idea how to prepare?
(a) Strudel.
(b) Porridge.
(c) Jewish food.
(d) Belgian food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Judt's parents disapprove of fuzzy drinks?

2. When did Judt divorce his consecutive wives?

3. Why did most middle class families not have servants according to the "Bedders"?

4. What fuel was the most widely used during the post war?

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

(see the answer key)

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