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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. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Nothing state.
(b) Low state.
(c) Zero state.
(d) Blank slate.

2. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Juan.
(b) André.
(c) Hans.
(d) Francis.

3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A stage in childhood development.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A literary device.
(d) A necessary stage in natural selection.

4. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) A vague aim.
(b) A definite object.
(c) Roots in reality.
(d) An unspecified object.

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

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

3. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

4. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

5. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

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