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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Suffering and Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Judaism.

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Physical.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Literal.
(d) Logical.

3. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?
(a) Horror.
(b) Abject.
(c) Noun.
(d) Object.

4. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) The mother.
(c) A doctor.
(d) The father.

5. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Classes.
(b) Races.
(c) Religions.
(d) The sexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

2. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?

3. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?

4. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?

5. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

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