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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Powers of Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Experience.
(c) Language.
(d) Feeling.

2. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?
(a) Any animal.
(b) Fish.
(c) Birds.
(d) Humans.

3. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His grandmother.

4. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) Christ's death.
(b) The Flood.
(c) The Fall.
(d) Christ's birth.

5. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
(a) Pedophilia.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Theft.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says Celine is a convenient example of abject literature because he is what?

2. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

3. Kristeva says that the Christian account of sin could be defined as what?

4. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?

5. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

(see the answer key)

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