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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, . . . Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The murder taboo.
(b) The incest taboo.
(c) The pedophilia taboo.
(d) The rape taboo.

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

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

4. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Kris.
(c) Hartmann.
(d) Rappaport.

5. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Fall.
(b) Christ's death.
(c) Christ's birth.
(d) The Flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?

2. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

3. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

4. 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?

5. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

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