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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. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Bad.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Clean.
(d) Nonexistent.

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

3. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A pseudo-object.
(b) A question.
(c) A substance.
(d) An argument.

4. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Hasenclever.
(c) Broecking.
(d) Fürst.

5. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) A living being.
(c) Someone who never lived.
(d) A person which should be alive.

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. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

3. 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?

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

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