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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Death.
(c) His father.
(d) Missing sex organs.

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) A definite object.
(b) Roots in reality.
(c) An unspecified object.
(d) A vague aim.

3. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Being a subject.
(b) Being nothing.
(c) Not being an object.
(d) Not being a subject.

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Explainable.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Misunderstood.
(d) Inexpressible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

3. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

4. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

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