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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Communists.

5. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?
(a) Flaviviruses.
(b) Puerperal fever.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Bunyaviruses.

6. How does Celine often depict maternal figures?
(a) As loving.
(b) As violent.
(c) As sexual.
(d) As bored.

7. 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) Trifles for a Massacre.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

8. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?
(a) Twilight of the Idols.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) On the Genealogy of Morality.
(d) The Case of Wagner.

9. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?
(a) Lust.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Love.

10. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?
(a) Charles Reznikoff.
(b) Sholem Asch.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Milton Hindus.

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

12. Chapter 10 "In the Beginning and Without End . . ." begins with a quote from Celine which says that "in the beginning was" what?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Sin.
(c) Danger.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?

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

3. Celine was of what nationality?

4. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?

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

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