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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 does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its universality.
(b) Its lucidity.
(c) Its ambiguity.
(d) Its explicitness.

2. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) Émile Durkheim.
(b) Mary Douglas.
(c) M. N. Srinivas.
(d) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

3. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Climax theory.
(b) Mood theory.
(c) Classic theory.
(d) Density wave theory.

4. 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.

5. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Kris.
(c) Rappaport.
(d) Hartmann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

2. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

4. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

5. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

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