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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Uncomfortable.
(b) Strange.
(c) Deviant.
(d) Familar.

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

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

5. Kristeva says the hatred of Jews is a metaphor for a very primal struggle against what perception?
(a) The favored brother.
(b) The favored mistress.
(c) The favored sister.
(d) The favored parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?

2. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption that he makes by use of what?

3. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote about what?

4. How does Celine often depict maternal figures?

5. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kristeva say Celine captures the abject in his writing?

2. Explain how Kristeva says Celine used grotesque acts in his works.

3. What reasons does Kristeva give for why Celine agreed with anti-Jew sentiments?

4. Why does Kristeva say her reading of Celine will not be a thematic one?

5. What does Kristeva say Celine felt was the foundation of human existence?

6. Why might Kristeva say many of Celine's stylistic choices be called anti-linguistic or anti-grammatical?

7. What does Kristeva say makes literature "abject"?

8. How did Celine seem to feel about the French language and the English language?

9. How does Kristeva say Celine displaced the mother in his depiction of very young girls?

10. What does Kristeva mean when she says Celine is neither actor nor martyr?

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