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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. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His mother.

2. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Clean.
(b) Sinful.
(c) Good.
(d) Dirty.

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

4. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In the Old Testement.
(c) In a person's brain.
(d) In a person's soul.

5. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Their background.
(b) Language.
(c) Art.
(d) Other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

2. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?

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

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

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