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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. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?
(a) On the Genealogy of Morality.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Twilight of the Idols.
(d) The Case of Wagner.

2. 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) Social status.
(b) Marital status.
(c) Education.
(d) Politcal affiliation.

3. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?
(a) Bunyaviruses.
(b) Yellow fever.
(c) Puerperal fever.
(d) Flaviviruses.

4. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?
(a) Abject.
(b) Horror.
(c) Noun.
(d) Object.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?

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

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

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

5. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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