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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. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?
(a) Legitimacy.
(b) Power.
(c) Voice.
(d) Contradiction.

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

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?
(a) Metaphorical.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Internal.
(d) Material.

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?
(a) The original sin of Adam.
(b) The flood.
(c) Hell.
(d) Satan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

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

3. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?

4. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

5. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?

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