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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Suffering and Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from what book?
(a) Trifles for a Massacre.
(b) Death on the Installment Plan.
(c) Journey to the End of the Night.
(d) School of Corpses.

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

3. What type of creature does Kristeva say Celine saw man as?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Rational.
(c) Sensate.
(d) Bestial.

4. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) A unity with nature.
(b) Man's kindness.
(c) Noah's faithfulness.
(d) Man's evil nature.

5. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Deficient.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?

2. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

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

4. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?

5. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

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