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

2. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?
(a) Society.
(b) His characters.
(c) His emotions.
(d) What he is narrating.

3. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Incest and murder.
(b) Incest and rape.
(c) Rape and murder.
(d) Godlessness and murder.

4. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) A demon.
(b) An animal.
(c) An angel.
(d) A god.

5. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Physical.
(b) Literal.
(c) Metaphorical.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

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

3. 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?

4. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is not a man ideas but a man of what?

5. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

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