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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 purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Marital affairs.
(b) Sexual affairs.
(c) Financial affairs.
(d) Hygienic affairs.

2. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Anima.
(c) Puer.
(d) Senex.

3. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Broecking.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Fürst.
(d) Hasenclever.

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

5. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A stage in childhood development.
(b) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A literary device.

Short Answer Questions

1. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

2. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

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

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

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

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