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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 believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Literal.
(b) Physical.
(c) Metaphorical.
(d) Logical.

2. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) An argument.
(b) A substance.
(c) A pseudo-object.
(d) A question.

3. Kristeva says Celine's goal is to pervert and twist what?
(a) Language.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Religion.
(d) Concepts.

4. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Voluptuousness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Abjection.
(d) Empathy.

5. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?
(a) Dumas.
(b) Lautreamont.
(c) Bourges.
(d) Verne.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?

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

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

4. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

5. Celine wrote during the rise of National Socialism in what country?

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