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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. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Deficient.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Flawed.

2. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Zero state.
(b) Nothing state.
(c) Low state.
(d) Blank slate.

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

4. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Clean.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Good.

5. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) The abject.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

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

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

4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

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

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