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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. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?
(a) With the style of writing.
(b) With the process of his writing.
(c) With the content of what is written,
(d) With the reader's experience.

2. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?
(a) The ancient Egyptians.
(b) The ancient Greeks.
(c) The Pagans.
(d) The Jews.

3. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?
(a) Puerperal fever.
(b) Bunyaviruses.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Flaviviruses.

4. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A question.
(b) An argument.
(c) A substance.
(d) A pseudo-object.

5. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) God.
(c) The holy spirit.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

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

3. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

4. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?

5. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?

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