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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 taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The incest taboo.
(b) The murder taboo.
(c) The rape taboo.
(d) The pedophilia taboo.

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

3. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?
(a) Epitome.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Manifestation.
(d) Embodiment.

4. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Evil.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Sin.

5. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote about what?
(a) Art work.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Sentences.
(d) Songs.

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 says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?

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

4. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

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

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