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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 that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Deviant.
(b) Strange.
(c) Familar.
(d) Uncomfortable.

2. According to Kristeva, Christ invited his disciples to see what from several angles?
(a) His teachings about God.
(b) The validity of laws.
(c) Issues regarding his diety.
(d) Ethical issues.

3. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Awalt.
(c) Timmons.
(d) Bloom.

4. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?
(a) Babylonian Law.
(b) Tosefta Law.
(c) Aggadic Law.
(d) Mishnaic Law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption that he makes by use of what?

2. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

3. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?

4. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?

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

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