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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, In the Beginning and Without End . . ..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?
(a) Grow.
(b) Live.
(c) Love.
(d) Die.

2. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
(a) Theft.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Pedophilia.
(d) Murder.

3. Kristeva says abject literature is what kind of category?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Understated.
(c) Unified.
(d) Over zealous.

4. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?
(a) Fish.
(b) Cud.
(c) Insects.
(d) Birds.

5. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Being a subject.
(b) Not being a subject.
(c) Being nothing.
(d) Not being an object.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?

3. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

4. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

5. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

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