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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. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His father.
(b) His parents' love.
(c) His toys.
(d) His mother's body.

2. 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?
(a) Great.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Small.

3. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Ignore them.
(b) Get rid of them.
(c) Learn to express them.
(d) Adapt to them.

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

5. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Incest and murder.
(b) Rape and murder.
(c) Incest and rape.
(d) Godlessness and murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

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

3. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

5. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

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