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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ours to Jew or Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Embarrassment and sin.
(b) Rejection and fear.
(c) Reflection and shame.
(d) Pride and hope.

2. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through God.
(b) Through rejection.
(c) Through rites.
(d) Through love.

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

4. About how long has it been since the publication of "Journey to the End of the Night" when this book was written?
(a) 60 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

5. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Alexandre Kojève.
(b) Georges Bataille.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?

2. Kristeva says illusions give what to hatred?

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

4. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?

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

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