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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 posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) Sex.
(b) Women.
(c) Impurity.
(d) The outdoors.

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

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

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Nothing state.
(b) Blank slate.
(c) Zero state.
(d) Low state.

5. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?
(a) With the content of what is written,
(b) With the style of writing.
(c) With the reader's experience.
(d) With the process of his writing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?

3. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

5. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Mea Culpa" published?

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