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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Low state.
(b) Blank slate.
(c) Zero state.
(d) Nothing state.

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Hartmann.
(b) Freud.
(c) Kris.
(d) Rappaport.

3. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Francis.
(b) Hans.
(c) André.
(d) Juan.

4. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?
(a) Body.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Soul.
(d) Sin.

5. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Mormonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?

2. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

3. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?

4. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

5. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the correlation Kristeva presents between the importance of social status in sexual relationships and the equality between the sexes?

2. What does Kristeva mean when she talks about "subjectified abjection"?

3. How does Kristeva says the abject can be expressed?

4. How does Kristeva say the impurity phobia serves as a metaphor for society?

5. What does Kristeva say is the most plausible interpretation of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?

6. What reason does Kristeva give for why women in the Jewish faith are seen as impure after having children?

7. How does Kristeva say the abject relates to lust?

8. What are the two stages in which Kristeva says the quest for the "Other" breaks down?

9. Explain Kristeva's idea of the "zero state."

10. What two ways of relating to the abject does Kristeva says Dostoevsky presents in "The Possessed"?

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