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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. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Alexandre Kojève.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Georges Bataille.

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A stage in childhood development.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(d) A literary device.

3. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) India.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

4. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Death.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) Violence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

2. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

5. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

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