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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, . . . Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Sex.
(d) The mother.

2. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?
(a) God.
(b) Their brothers.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Society.

3. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(c) The Tree of God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Angels and Demons.

4. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) Émile Durkheim.
(b) Mary Douglas.
(c) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
(d) M. N. Srinivas.

5. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Desire.
(c) Hate.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

2. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?

3. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

4. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?

5. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

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