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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A living being.
(b) A person which should be alive.
(c) Someone who never lived.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Nothing.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Substitute.

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Logical.
(c) Horrific.
(d) Phenomenological.

4. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?
(a) Their brothers.
(b) God.
(c) Society.
(d) Their fathers.

5. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Death.
(c) Violence.
(d) Missing sex organs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

2. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

3. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

5. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

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