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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. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Missing sex organs.
(c) Death.
(d) Violence.

2. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Reflection and shame.
(b) Rejection and fear.
(c) Pride and hope.
(d) Embarrassment and sin.

3. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) James George Frazer.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(d) Bernard Kouchner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

2. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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