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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying that the mother gives life without what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Love.
(c) Passion.
(d) Infinity.

2. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is only comfortable in what?
(a) The presence of pen and paper.
(b) The love of friends.
(c) The time spent alone.
(d) The presence of nothing at all.

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

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

5. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?
(a) Proust.
(b) Leroux.
(c) Gide.
(d) Bordeaux.

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

7. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?
(a) The death of God.
(b) The goddlessness of the average believer.
(c) What lies hidden by God.
(d) The sins of man as defined by God.

8. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?
(a) Georges Bataille.
(b) Emmanuel Lévinas.
(c) Henri Bergson.
(d) René Descartes.

9. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?
(a) Shakespearean.
(b) Freudian.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Sadean.

10. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "L'Ecole des cadavres" published?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1932.

11. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was arguing for the status quo?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Capitalists.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Communists.

12. 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) Multiplied abjection.
(d) Violent abjection.

13. What is the last name of the "Journey to the End of the Night" character Arthur?
(a) Linus.
(b) Ganate.
(c) Hadley.
(d) Hodge.

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

15. About how long has Celine been dead when this book was written?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 10 years,
(c) 50 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?

2. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?

3. Celine was of what nationality?

4. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?

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

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