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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. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Original sin.
(b) Nuclear family.
(c) The holy trinity.
(d) Evolution.

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

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

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

5. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being a subject.
(b) Being nothing.
(c) Being a subject.
(d) Not being an object.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

2. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

4. 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?

5. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

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