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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. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Clean.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Good.

2. 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) Alcoholism.
(d) Murder.

3. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Broecking.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Fürst.
(d) Hasenclever.

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Lusts.
(b) Love.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Thoughts.

5. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Hygienic affairs.
(b) Financial affairs.
(c) Sexual affairs.
(d) Marital affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

2. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?

3. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

5. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?

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