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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?
(a) Grow.
(b) Love.
(c) Live.
(d) Die.

2. In Celine's "Rigadoon," the work of the writer is compared to the patience of what?
(a) Cats.
(b) Ants.
(c) Saints.
(d) Owls.

3. What does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females all lean toward?
(a) Nazism.
(b) The grotesque.
(c) Incest.
(d) Beauty.

4. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote about what?
(a) Sentences.
(b) Songs.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Art work.

5. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?
(a) School of Corpses.
(b) Death on the Installment Plan.
(c) Journey to the End of the Night.
(d) Trifles for a Massacre.

6. 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) Empathy.
(b) Voluptuousness.
(c) Abjection.
(d) Anger.

7. Kristeva says Celine is the first to realize that emotional depths are revealed by what?
(a) Death.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Melody.

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

9. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?
(a) Voice.
(b) Legitimacy.
(c) Power.
(d) Contradiction.

10. What language did Celine describe as regal in a quote Kristeva uses in Chapter 10?
(a) German.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) English.

11. Kristeva says abject literature is what kind of category?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Understated.
(c) Unified.
(d) Over zealous.

12. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Celine.
(b) Tacitus.
(c) Georges Bataille.
(d) Victor Hugo.

13. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?
(a) Mallarme.
(b) Nin.
(c) Arp.
(d) Desnos.

14. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Destouches.
(b) Celine.
(c) Villon.
(d) Follet.

15. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Les Beaux Draps" published?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?

3. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?

4. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?

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

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