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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 name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its lucidity.
(b) Its ambiguity.
(c) Its universality.
(d) Its explicitness.

2. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Good.
(b) Sinful.
(c) Dirty.
(d) Clean.

3. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(b) The Tree of God and Man.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) The Tree of Angels and Demons.

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

5. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) The abject.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?

2. Where does Kristeva say the "miracle" of Celine lies?

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

4. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?

5. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

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