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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) The holy trinity.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Nuclear family.

2. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Lust.

3. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Unified abjection.
(b) Mutual abjection.
(c) Violent abjection.
(d) Multiplied abjection.

4. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?
(a) Bourges.
(b) Dumas.
(c) Verne.
(d) Lautreamont.

5. In which of Celine's books does the narrator say, "A beautiful shroud embroidered with tales--that's what the Pale Lady wants"?
(a) Trifles for a Massacre.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) School of Corpses.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?

2. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?

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

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

5. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?

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