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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. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Communists.

2. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Hygienic affairs.
(b) Sexual affairs.
(c) Marital affairs.
(d) Financial affairs.

3. Which of Celine's works does Kristeva say best captures the feelings of the abject?
(a) School of Corpses.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) Trifles for a Massacre.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

4. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Joel.
(d) Genesis.

5. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(b) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) The Tree of God and Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?

3. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

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