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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?
(a) Mesopotamian.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Judaism.

2. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Flawed.
(d) Deficient.

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Fear.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

4. To whom does Kristeva say "Journey to the End of the Night" is dedicated?
(a) Marie Kelly.
(b) Delores Meyer.
(c) Kaitlin Forshee.
(d) Elisabeth Craig.

5. Kristeva says abject literature is what kind of category?
(a) Understated.
(b) Over zealous.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Unified.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

2. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?

3. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

5. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?

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