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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Satan.
(d) Sin.

3. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?
(a) Lust.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Love.
(d) Suffering.

4. Kristeva says Celine is the first to realize that emotional depths are revealed by what?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Melody.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Death.

5. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?
(a) Bourges.
(b) Dumas.
(c) Lautreamont.
(d) Verne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?

2. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?

3. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?

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

5. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females relate to the abject?

2. What does Kristeva say about how Celine's novels are realistic?

3. How does Kristeva seem to feel about Celine's Nazism?

4. Why does Kristeva say it makes sense that Celine would say his style was the most important part of his writing?

5. Why might Kristeva say many of Celine's stylistic choices be called anti-linguistic or anti-grammatical?

6. Why does Kristeva say it is rash to ignore any value one might find in the Anti-Semitism in Celine's work?

7. How did Celine present very young girls in his works?

8. Describe Celine's mother type of character.

9. Why does Kristeva say her reading of Celine will not be a thematic one?

10. Explain how Kristeva says Celine used grotesque acts in his works.

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