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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. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote about what?
(a) Sentences.
(b) Songs.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Art work.

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) A definite object.
(b) A vague aim.
(c) An unspecified object.
(d) Roots in reality.

3. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was arguing for the status quo?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Communists.
(c) National Socialists.
(d) Capitalists.

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

5. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(b) Totem and Taboo.
(c) Studies on Hysteria.
(d) Moses and Monotheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

2. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

3. Kristeva says a laughing apocalypse is an apocalypse without what?

4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

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

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