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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. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Communists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) National Socialists.

2. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hate.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

3. Kristeva begins Chapter 6 "Celine: Neither Actor Nor Martyr" with a quote from what book?
(a) The Case of Wagner.
(b) Beyond Good and Evil.
(c) Twilight of the Idols.
(d) On the Genealogy of Morality.

4. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Anima.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Senex.
(d) Puer.

5. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) Impurity.
(b) Sex.
(c) Women.
(d) The outdoors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

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

4. Whose writings does Kristeva encounter in "the black, romantic rage"?

5. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

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