Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Semiotics of Biblical Abomination.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Through religion.
(b) Song.
(c) Art.
(d) Language.

2. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Their background.
(b) Language.
(c) Art.
(d) Other people.

3. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Jellyfish.
(b) Shellfish.
(c) Goldfish.
(d) Octypus.

4. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being a subject.
(b) Not being an object.
(c) Being nothing.
(d) Being a subject.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

2. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

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

4. 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?

5. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

(see the answer key)

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