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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. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) God.
(b) The holy spirit.
(c) Moses.
(d) Jesus.

2. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?
(a) Internal.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Material.

3. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repression.
(b) All repulsion.
(c) All desire.
(d) All hatred.

4. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Joel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

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

3. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

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

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

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