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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From Filth to Defilement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Totem and Taboo.
(b) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(c) Studies on Hysteria.
(d) Moses and Monotheism.

2. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Through religion.
(b) Art.
(c) Language.
(d) Song.

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A living being.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A person which should be alive.
(d) Someone who never lived.

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Language.
(c) Experience.
(d) Art.

5. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(b) Bernard Kouchner.
(c) James George Frazer.
(d) Jean-Paul Sartre.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

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

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

5. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

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