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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ours to Jew or Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Mood theory.
(b) Classic theory.
(c) Climax theory.
(d) Density wave theory.

2. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?
(a) Bestial.
(b) Sensate.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Rational.

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

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

5. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying that the mother gives life without what?
(a) Infinity.
(b) Passion.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says she gets a feeling from reading Celine that she does not get from whom?

3. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

4. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

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

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