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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, . . . Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) James George Frazer.
(b) Bernard Kouchner.
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(d) Claude Lévi-Strauss.

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Literal.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Physical.
(d) Logical.

3. 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) Georges Bataille.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through rejection.
(b) Through God.
(c) Through love.
(d) Through rites.

5. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) Christ's death.
(b) Christ's birth.
(c) The Fall.
(d) The Flood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?

3. 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?

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

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