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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?
(a) With the process of his writing.
(b) With the content of what is written,
(c) With the reader's experience.
(d) With the style of writing.

2. According to Kristeva, Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what kind of speech?
(a) Binary.
(b) Divided.
(c) Secondary.
(d) Literary,

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

4. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Unified abjection.
(b) Mutual abjection.
(c) Violent abjection.
(d) Multiplied abjection.

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

6. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?
(a) Classes.
(b) Races.
(c) Sexes.
(d) Religions.

7. Celine was of what nationality?
(a) American.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Italian.

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

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

10. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?
(a) Awalt.
(b) Timmons.
(c) Bloom.
(d) Marcus.

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

12. Which of Celine's works does Kristeva say best captures the feelings of the abject?
(a) School of Corpses.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) Death on the Installment Plan.
(d) Trifles for a Massacre.

13. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying his aim was to do what to language?
(a) Revitalize.
(b) Resuscitate.
(c) Regurgitate.
(d) Resensitize.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?

2. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?

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

4. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from what book?

5. In which of Celine's works does a young character named Virginia appear?

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