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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) Dialog.
(c) Diction.
(d) Content.

2. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?
(a) Contradiction.
(b) Voice.
(c) Legitimacy.
(d) Power.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?

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

3. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

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

5. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?

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