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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 Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption that he makes by use of what?
(a) Style.
(b) Content.
(c) Dialog.
(d) Diction.

2. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Good.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Clean.
(d) Sinful.

3. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?
(a) Nin.
(b) Mallarme.
(c) Desnos.
(d) Arp.

4. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Sexual affairs.
(b) Hygienic affairs.
(c) Financial affairs.
(d) Marital affairs.

5. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) Women.
(b) Impurity.
(c) The outdoors.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?

2. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

3. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?

4. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?

5. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

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