View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Art.
(c) Language.
(d) Feeling.

2. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A person which should be alive.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) Someone who never lived.
(d) A living being.

3. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Juan.
(b) Francis.
(c) André.
(d) Hans.

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

5. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's brain.
(b) In a person's imagination.
(c) In a person's soul.
(d) In the Old Testement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?

2. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

3. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 226 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample