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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 accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Hartmann.
(b) Rappaport.
(c) Kris.
(d) Freud.

2. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Clean.
(b) Bad.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Confusing.

3. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Lusts.
(b) Love.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Thoughts.

4. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A substance.
(b) A question.
(c) An argument.
(d) A pseudo-object.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

2. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

3. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

4. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

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

(see the answer key)

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