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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His aunt.

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

6. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption that he makes by use of what?
(a) Content.
(b) Diction.
(c) Dialog.
(d) Style.

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

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

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

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

11. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?
(a) Morbid loathing.
(b) Sharp intelligence.
(c) Defined loving.
(d) Piercing laughter.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?

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

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

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

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