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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, In the Beginning and Without End . . ..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Deficient.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Flawed.

2. Chapter 9 "Ours to Jew or Die" begins with a quote by whom?
(a) Villon.
(b) Destouches.
(c) Follet.
(d) Celine.

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

4. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote by whom?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Locke.

5. What act of depravity does Kristeva point out that Celine uses in relation with very young girls to revolt his reader?
(a) Murder.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Pedophilia.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

3. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

5. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

(see the answer key)

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