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

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

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is only comfortable in what?
(a) The love of friends.
(b) The presence of pen and paper.
(c) The presence of nothing at all.
(d) The time spent alone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?

3. Kristeva says Celine's goal is to pervert and twist what?

4. What language did Celine say he loathed in a quote Kristeva uses in Chapter 10?

5. In which of Celine's books does his character Molly appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kristeva mean when she says Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what might be called "binary" speech?

2. How does Kristeva say the hatred of Jews act as a metaphor for the abject?

3. Why does Kristeva say it is rash to ignore any value one might find in the Anti-Semitism in Celine's work?

4. Describe Celine's mother type of character.

5. Why would Celine's work not be considered abject when he was actively writing them?

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

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

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

9. How does Kristeva seem to feel about Celine's Nazism?

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

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