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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. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Ablepsy.
(d) Meningitis.

2. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He is born in wedlock.
(b) He meets with a rabbi.
(c) He is baptised.
(d) He is circumsized.

3. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Reflection and shame.
(c) Pride and hope.
(d) Embarrassment and sin.

4. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was arguing for the status quo?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Communists.

5. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?
(a) Rational.
(b) Bestial.
(c) Sensate.
(d) Civilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?

2. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?

3. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?

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

5. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?

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