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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ours to Jew or Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?
(a) Society.
(b) What he is narrating.
(c) His emotions.
(d) His characters.

3. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?
(a) Locke.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?
(a) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
(b) Gustav Adolf Michaelis.
(c) Ignaz Semmelweis.
(d) Caroline M De Costa.

5. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?
(a) Noah.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Moses.
(d) Abraham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

2. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

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

4. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?

5. Kristeva says the hatred of Jews is a metaphor for a very primal struggle against what perception?

(see the answer key)

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