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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. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Deficient.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Flawed.
(d) Perfect.

2. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?
(a) Society.
(b) His emotions.
(c) What he is narrating.
(d) His characters.

3. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Nothing.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Substitute.

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) God.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Adam and Eve.
(d) Evil supernatural forces.

5. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?
(a) The death of God.
(b) The sins of man as defined by God.
(c) The goddlessness of the average believer.
(d) What lies hidden by God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying his aim was to do what to language?

2. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?

3. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption that he makes by use of what?

4. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?

5. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?

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