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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 his aim was to do what to language?
(a) Resuscitate.
(b) Revitalize.
(c) Resensitize.
(d) Regurgitate.

2. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
(a) Pedophilia.
(b) Theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Alcoholism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. In which of Celine's works does a young character named Virginia appear?
(a) North.
(b) School of Corpses.
(c) London Bridge.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

12. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Destouches.
(b) Villon.
(c) Follet.
(d) Celine.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Celine's character Molly's occupation?

2. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?

3. Celine was of what nationality?

4. To whom does Kristeva say "Journey to the End of the Night" is dedicated?

5. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?

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