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

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

3. Celine wrote during the rise of National Socialism in what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Italy.
(d) Turkey.

4. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Strange.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Familar.
(d) Deviant.

5. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?
(a) Beyond Good and Evil.
(b) Twilight of the Idols.
(c) On the Genealogy of Morality.
(d) The Case of Wagner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?

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

4. 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?

5. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?

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