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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 what year was Celine's pamphlet "Bagatelles pour un massacre" published?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1939.

2. What language did Celine say he loathed in a quote Kristeva uses in Chapter 10?
(a) Italian.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) French.

3. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Low state.
(b) Blank slate.
(c) Nothing state.
(d) Zero state.

4. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?
(a) Russians.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Americans.
(d) Jews.

5. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?
(a) Sin.
(b) Soul.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

2. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

3. About how long has Celine been dead when this book was written?

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

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

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