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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. 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 rape taboo.
(d) The pedophilia taboo.

2. 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?
(a) Valuable.
(b) Small.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Great.

3. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Bernard Kouchner.
(b) James George Frazer.
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(d) Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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

5. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Locke.

Short Answer Questions

1. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?

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

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

4. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?

5. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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