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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?
(a) Horror.
(b) Abject.
(c) Object.
(d) Noun.

2. 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) Milton Hindus.
(d) Whittaker Chambers.

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is the son of a woman who repairs what?
(a) Wood furnishings.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Seams.
(d) Ancient lace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Locke.
(d) Nietzsche.

11. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?
(a) Ignaz Semmelweis.
(b) Gustav Adolf Michaelis.
(c) Caroline M De Costa.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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

13. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?
(a) Man.
(b) Satan.
(c) Sin.
(d) God.

14. Celine wrote during the rise of National Socialism in what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Italy.

15. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Science.
(c) Style.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kristeva say Celine's maternal figures depend on for their existence?

2. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying slang is a language of what?

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

5. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?

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