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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 women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Logical.
(d) Overly sexual.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

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