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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. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Alexandre Kojève.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) Georges Bataille.

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repression.
(b) All hatred.
(c) All repulsion.
(d) All desire.

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?
(a) Material.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Internal.
(d) Symbolic.

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

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Sin.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

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

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

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kristeva say the Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle flawed?

2. What does Kristeva say are the two prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?

3. What does Kristeva say about how fears and desires are formed in young children?

4. According to traditional beliefs in Christianity, how does Adam's original sin taint human freedoms?

5. How does Kristeva say Christianity uses separation and division?

6. How does Kristeva say incest relates to the abject?

7. What example does Kristeva give phobias which involves beautiful women?

8. How does social status play a role in purity customs in India?

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

10. What does it mean when Kristeva says she gives a "phenomenological" account of the abject?

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