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

2. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Art.
(b) Through religion.
(c) Song.
(d) Language.

3. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Bad.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Clean.

4. 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) Dirty.
(d) Good.

5. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Bagatelles pour un massacre" published?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?

2. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

4. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?

5. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

(see the answer key)

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