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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. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In a person's brain.
(c) In the Old Testement.
(d) In a person's soul.

2. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

3. What is Celine's character Molly's occupation?
(a) Poet.
(b) Factory worker.
(c) Seamstress.
(d) Prostitute.

4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(b) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(c) Bernard Kouchner.
(d) James George Frazer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

2. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

3. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Les Beaux Draps" published?

4. Kristeva says Celine is the first to realize that emotional depths are revealed by what?

5. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

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