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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 state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sin.
(d) Narcissism.

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

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

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Explainable.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Inexpressible.
(d) Misunderstood.

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Climax theory.
(b) Classic theory.
(c) Density wave theory.
(d) Mood theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

2. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

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

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

5. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

(see the answer key)

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