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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?
(a) Georges Bataille.
(b) Henri Bergson.
(c) René Descartes.
(d) Emmanuel Lévinas.

3. Kristeva says Celine saw his home country as becoming dominated by a secret conspiracy by whom?
(a) Americans.
(b) Russians.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Jews.

4. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Locke.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Hobbes.

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

6. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Style.
(d) Science.

7. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?
(a) Bloom.
(b) Awalt.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Timmons.

8. What does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females all lean toward?
(a) Nazism.
(b) Incest.
(c) Beauty.
(d) The grotesque.

9. Kristeva says abject literature is what kind of category?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Over zealous.
(c) Understated.
(d) Unified.

10. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Follet.
(b) Destouches.
(c) Villon.
(d) Celine.

11. Who did Celine devote his doctoral dissertation to?
(a) Gustav Adolf Michaelis.
(b) Ignaz Semmelweis.
(c) Caroline M De Costa.
(d) Oliver Wendell Holmes.

12. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Strange.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Deviant.
(d) Familar.

13. 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) Communists.
(b) National Socialists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Republicans.

14. Kristeva says the hatred of Jews is a metaphor for a very primal struggle against what perception?
(a) The favored brother.
(b) The favored mistress.
(c) The favored sister.
(d) The favored parent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?

2. Kristeva says Celine is the first to realize that emotional depths are revealed by what?

3. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?

4. According to Kristeva, Celine's language exhibits a fascination with what kind of speech?

5. Which of Celine's works does Kristeva say best captures the feelings of the abject?

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