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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 say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(c) Religion and morality.
(d) Denial and hatred.

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) Roots in reality.
(b) A definite object.
(c) An unspecified object.
(d) A vague aim.

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

4. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Biological needs.
(b) Fears.
(c) Sexual desires.
(d) Jealousy.

5. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Hate.
(c) Anger.
(d) Need.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

2. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

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

4. 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?

5. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

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