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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. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) The father.
(c) The mother.
(d) A doctor.

2. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Godlessness and murder.
(b) Rape and murder.
(c) Incest and murder.
(d) Incest and rape.

3. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Need.
(c) Hate.
(d) Desire.

4. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(b) Rejection and fear.
(c) Denial and hatred.
(d) Religion and morality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

3. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

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

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

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