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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. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His parents' love.
(b) His toys.
(c) His mother's body.
(d) His father.

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

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

4. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through rejection.
(b) Through God.
(c) Through rites.
(d) Through love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

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

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

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

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