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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From Filth to Defilement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Experience.
(c) Language.
(d) Feeling.

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 Substitute.
(c) The Nothing.
(d) The Something.

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Explainable.
(d) Inexpressible.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

2. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

3. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

4. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

5. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

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