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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. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His aunt.

2. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote about what?
(a) Art work.
(b) Songs.
(c) Sentences.
(d) Friendship.

3. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Classes.
(b) The sexes.
(c) Religions.
(d) Races.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Celine followed what political affiliation?

3. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?

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

5. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

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