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

2. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Bernard Kouchner.
(d) James George Frazer.

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

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) God.
(b) Evil supernatural forces.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Adam and Eve.

5. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Pedophilia.
(c) Theft.
(d) Murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

2. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

3. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is the son of a woman who repairs what?

4. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?

5. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying that the mother gives life without what?

(see the answer key)

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