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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Pride and hope.
(b) Reflection and shame.
(c) Embarrassment and sin.
(d) Rejection and fear.

2. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?
(a) The Tree of God and Man.
(b) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) The Tree of Angels and Demons.

3. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Confusing.
(b) Bad.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Clean.

4. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Original sin.
(b) The holy trinity.
(c) Nuclear family.
(d) Evolution.

5. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Phenomenological.
(b) Logical.
(c) Horrific.
(d) Absurd.

6. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A person which should be alive.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A living being.
(d) Someone who never lived.

7. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Ablepsy.
(d) Meningitis.

8. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Nothing.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Substitute.

9. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Other people.
(b) Language.
(c) Art.
(d) Their background.

10. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Shellfish.
(b) Octypus.
(c) Jellyfish.
(d) Goldfish.

11. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?
(a) The Pagans.
(b) The ancient Greeks.
(c) The ancient Egyptians.
(d) The Jews.

12. 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?
(a) Valuable.
(b) Small.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Great.

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

14. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Logical.
(c) Hateful.
(d) Overly sexual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

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

3. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

4. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

5. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

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