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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 Celine is a convenient example of abject literature because he is what?
(a) Fluctuating.
(b) Privileged.
(c) Educated.
(d) Simple-minded.

2. Kristeva says all literature is an apocalypse that seems to be rooted where what do not exist?
(a) Idols.
(b) Identities.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Idioms.

3. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?
(a) Sexes.
(b) Classes.
(c) Religions.
(d) Races.

4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Something.
(c) The Substitute.
(d) The Nothing.

5. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) A person which should be alive.
(c) Someone who never lived.
(d) A living being.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

2. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?

4. Chapter 10 "In the Beginning and Without End . . ." begins with a quote from Celine which says that "in the beginning was" what?

5. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

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