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

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

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

4. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) The holy trinity.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Nuclear family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

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

5. 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?

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