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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. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?
(a) Calvinist.
(b) Freudian.
(c) Sadean.
(d) Shakespearean.

2. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?
(a) Journey to the End of the Night.
(b) School of Corpses.
(c) Trifles for a Massacre.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Unknown.
(b) Inexpressible.
(c) Misunderstood.
(d) Explainable.

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) God.
(c) The holy spirit.
(d) Jesus.

5. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Get rid of them.
(b) Adapt to them.
(c) Learn to express them.
(d) Ignore them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?

2. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

3. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?

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

5. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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