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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From Filth to Defilement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Angry.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Evil.
(d) Anti-social.

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repulsion.
(b) All repression.
(c) All hatred.
(d) All desire.

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

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

5. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Sexual desires.
(b) Biological needs.
(c) Fears.
(d) Jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

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

3. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

4. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

5. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

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