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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 that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hate.

2. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) India.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

3. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?
(a) Sadean.
(b) Calvinist.
(c) Shakespearean.
(d) Freudian.

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

5. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) A unity with nature.
(b) Man's evil nature.
(c) Man's kindness.
(d) Noah's faithfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?

2. What language did Celine describe as regal in a quote Kristeva uses in Chapter 10?

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is the son of a woman who repairs what?

4. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?

5. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?

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