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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, In the Beginning and Without End . . ..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?
(a) Freudian.
(b) Shakespearean.
(c) Sadean.
(d) Calvinist.

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) God.
(c) Adam and Eve.
(d) Evil supernatural forces.

3. What is the name Celine was born with?
(a) Francis Perrot.
(b) Juan Ferdinand.
(c) Dupont Chevalier.
(d) Louis Destouches.

4. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?
(a) John.
(b) Peter.
(c) Mark.
(d) Paul.

5. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?
(a) Milton Hindus.
(b) Whittaker Chambers.
(c) Pauline Smith.
(d) Terry Teachout.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva, Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what kind of speech?

2. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

3. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

4. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?

5. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

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