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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Violent abjection.
(b) Unified abjection.
(c) Multiplied abjection.
(d) Mutual abjection.

3. What is the last name of James Joyce's Molly character?
(a) Awalt.
(b) Bloom.
(c) Timmons.
(d) Marcus.

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

5. Who does Kristeva say Celine's maternal figures depend on for their existence?
(a) Their lovers.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their husbands.
(d) Their employees.

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. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

3. 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?

4. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?

5. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?

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