Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Test | Final Test - Easy

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying his aim was to do what to language?
(a) Resuscitate.
(b) Resensitize.
(c) Revitalize.
(d) Regurgitate.

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

3. Chapter 10 "In the Beginning and Without End . . ." begins with a quote from Celine which says that "in the beginning was" what?
(a) Sin.
(b) Danger.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

7. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying slang is a language of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Lonliness.

8. Celine was of what nationality?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) American.
(d) German.

9. How does Celine often depict maternal figures?
(a) As violent.
(b) As loving.
(c) As sexual.
(d) As bored.

10. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?
(a) Dumas.
(b) Bourges.
(c) Lautreamont.
(d) Verne.

11. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Science.
(c) Faith.
(d) Style.

12. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "L'Ecole des cadavres" published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1935.

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

14. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?
(a) Defined loving.
(b) Morbid loathing.
(c) Sharp intelligence.
(d) Piercing laughter.

15. What race did Celine seem fascinated with?
(a) Asians.
(b) Jews.
(c) Hispanics.
(d) Blacks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Kristeva say Celine's maternal figures depend on for their existence?

3. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?

4. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?

5. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?

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