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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It does not have a parted hoof.
(b) It has humps.
(c) It is meant to be ridden.
(d) It does not chew cud.

3. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Wrong.
(b) Deficient.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Flawed.

4. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?
(a) Defined loving.
(b) Morbid loathing.
(c) Sharp intelligence.
(d) Piercing laughter.

5. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?
(a) Freudian.
(b) Calvinist.
(c) Sadean.
(d) Shakespearean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?

3. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

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

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