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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, In the Beginning and Without End . . ..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Kristeva, Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what kind of speech?
(a) Literary,
(b) Divided.
(c) Binary.
(d) Secondary.

3. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Voluptuousness.
(d) Abjection.

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

5. What is the last name of the "Journey to the End of the Night" character Arthur?
(a) Hadley.
(b) Hodge.
(c) Linus.
(d) Ganate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?

2. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?

3. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

4. Kristeva says Celine anchors the destiny of literature through a re-assumption of what?

5. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

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