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

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

3. Which of Celine's works does Kristeva say best captures the feelings of the abject?
(a) Trifles for a Massacre.
(b) Journey to the End of the Night.
(c) School of Corpses.
(d) Death on the Installment Plan.

4. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?
(a) The abject.
(b) Its characters.
(c) Society.
(d) The object.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name Celine was born with?

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

4. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Celine present very young girls in his works?

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

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

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

7. How, according to Kristeva, do Celine's works draw the reader to their primal repressions?

8. Why does Kristeva say it makes sense that Celine would say his style was the most important part of his writing?

9. Describe Celine's mother type of character.

10. Why does Kristeva say that in Germany, even when Jews were seriously persecuted, they were punished with an increased vigor?

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