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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. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Bagatelles pour un massacre" published?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1937.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The incest taboo.
(b) The murder taboo.
(c) The pedophilia taboo.
(d) The rape taboo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the hatred of Jews is a metaphor for a very primal struggle against what perception?

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

3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

4. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

5. Celine wrote during the rise of National Socialism in what country?

(see the answer key)

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