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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Powers of Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said that a fictional theme is a "blasting of self-hood"?
(a) Georges Bataille.
(b) Emmanuel Lévinas.
(c) Henri Bergson.
(d) René Descartes.

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Republicans.
(c) Communists.
(d) Capitalists.

3. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) Water.
(b) The mother.
(c) Food.
(d) Sex.

4. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?
(a) Noun.
(b) Abject.
(c) Horror.
(d) Object.

5. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Abjection.
(d) Voluptuousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

2. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

3. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

4. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

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

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