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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Kristeva say Celine's maternal figures depend on for their existence?
(a) Their children.
(b) Their husbands.
(c) Their employees.
(d) Their lovers.

2. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?
(a) Its characters.
(b) The object.
(c) The abject.
(d) Society.

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

4. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?
(a) His brother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His mother.

5. Celine followed what political affiliation?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Communist.
(c) Royalist.
(d) Workers' Struggle.

6. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying slang is a language of what?
(a) Lonliness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Love.

7. To whom does Kristeva say "Journey to the End of the Night" is dedicated?
(a) Delores Meyer.
(b) Elisabeth Craig.
(c) Kaitlin Forshee.
(d) Marie Kelly.

8. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Republicans.

9. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?
(a) Society.
(b) What he is narrating.
(c) His characters.
(d) His emotions.

10. In which of Celine's books does his character Molly appear?
(a) Trifles for a Massacre.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) Death on the Installment Plan.
(d) School of Corpses.

11. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?
(a) Terry Teachout.
(b) Pauline Smith.
(c) Whittaker Chambers.
(d) Milton Hindus.

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

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

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

15. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Mea Culpa" published?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What race did Celine seem fascinated with?

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

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

5. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?

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