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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. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "Mea Culpa" published?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1924.

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

3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
(a) Great.
(b) Small.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Valuable.

4. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?
(a) What lies hidden by God.
(b) The death of God.
(c) The sins of man as defined by God.
(d) The goddlessness of the average believer.

5. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Deviant.
(b) Strange.
(c) Uncomfortable.
(d) Familar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

2. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?

3. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

4. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

5. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

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