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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Powers of Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying that the mother gives life without what?
(a) Infinity.
(b) Love.
(c) Desire.
(d) Passion.

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?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Communists.
(d) Capitalists.

3. In what year was Celine's pamphlet "L'Ecole des cadavres" published?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1935.

4. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?
(a) Live.
(b) Love.
(c) Grow.
(d) Die.

5. Celine followed what political affiliation?
(a) Workers' Struggle.
(b) Communist.
(c) Royalist.
(d) Nazism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from what book?

2. What language did Celine describe as regal in a quote Kristeva uses in Chapter 10?

3. Celine was of what nationality?

4. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

5. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

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