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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 style of writing.
(d) With the process of his writing.

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

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

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

5. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying slang is a language of what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Lonliness.
(d) Love.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Voluptuousness.
(c) Abjection.
(d) Empathy.

10. According to Kristeva, Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what kind of speech?
(a) Divided.
(b) Binary.
(c) Literary,
(d) Secondary.

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

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

13. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Bagatelles pour un massacre" published?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1937.

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

15. What does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females all lean toward?
(a) The grotesque.
(b) Incest.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Nazism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?

2. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?

3. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?

4. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Mea Culpa" published?

5. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?

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