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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. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Original sin.
(b) Nuclear family.
(c) The holy trinity.
(d) Evolution.

2. About how long has Celine been dead when this book was written?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years,

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

4. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?
(a) Mark.
(b) John.
(c) Paul.
(d) Peter.

5. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?

2. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

3. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

4. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?

5. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?

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