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

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

3. What does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females all lean toward?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Incest.
(c) The grotesque.
(d) Nazism.

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Mood theory.
(b) Classic theory.
(c) Climax theory.
(d) Density wave theory.

5. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Celine.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Tacitus.
(d) Georges Bataille.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of Celine's works does a young character named Virginia appear?

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

3. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?

4. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

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