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

2. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Americans.
(c) Russians.
(d) Jews.

3. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Education.
(b) Politcal affiliation.
(c) Marital status.
(d) Social status.

4. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Incest and rape.
(b) Rape and murder.
(c) Godlessness and murder.
(d) Incest and murder.

5. 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) Pride and hope.
(b) Reflection and shame.
(c) Rejection and fear.
(d) Embarrassment and sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?

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

3. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

4. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Bagatelles pour un massacre" published?

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

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