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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ours to Jew or Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the hatred of Jews is a metaphor for a very primal struggle against what perception?
(a) The favored sister.
(b) The favored brother.
(c) The favored mistress.
(d) The favored parent.

2. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Multiplied abjection.
(b) Violent abjection.
(c) Mutual abjection.
(d) Unified abjection.

3. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Marital status.
(b) Social status.
(c) Politcal affiliation.
(d) Education.

4. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Numbers.

5. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?
(a) Babylonian Law.
(b) Tosefta Law.
(c) Mishnaic Law.
(d) Aggadic Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

2. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?

3. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?

4. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

5. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?

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