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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Semiotics of Biblical Abomination.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A literary device.

3. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its universality.
(b) Its explicitness.
(c) Its ambiguity.
(d) Its lucidity.

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

5. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Sinful.
(b) Good.
(c) Clean.
(d) Dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

2. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

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

4. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

5. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

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