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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 the narrator say, "A beautiful shroud embroidered with tales--that's what the Pale Lady wants"?
(a) Journey to the End of the Night.
(b) School of Corpses.
(c) Death on the Installment Plan.
(d) Trifles for a Massacre.

2. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Sensate.
(c) Rational.
(d) Bestial.

3. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Buddhism.

4. Who is the author of "Literature and Evil"?
(a) Georges Bataille.
(b) Michel Foucault.
(c) Jacques Derrida.
(d) Philippe Sollers.

5. Kristeva says the abject and the repression of it have been a guiding force in the history of what?
(a) Science.
(b) Mankind.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?

3. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?

4. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?

5. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?

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