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

2. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Jellyfish.
(b) Shellfish.
(c) Goldfish.
(d) Octypus.

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

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Totem and Taboo.
(b) Moses and Monotheism.
(c) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(d) Studies on Hysteria.

5. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its ambiguity.
(b) Its lucidity.
(c) Its explicitness.
(d) Its universality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

4. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

5. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

(see the answer key)

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