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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Powers of Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of Celine's books does his character Molly appear?
(a) Trifles for a Massacre.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) School of Corpses.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

2. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its ambiguity.
(b) Its explicitness.
(c) Its universality.
(d) Its lucidity.

3. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Mutual abjection.
(b) Violent abjection.
(c) Unified abjection.
(d) Multiplied abjection.

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Density wave theory.
(b) Classic theory.
(c) Mood theory.
(d) Climax theory.

5. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is only comfortable in what?
(a) The presence of nothing at all.
(b) The love of friends.
(c) The presence of pen and paper.
(d) The time spent alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?

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

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

4. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

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

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