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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Flood.
(b) The Fall.
(c) Christ's birth.
(d) Christ's death.

2. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Evil.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Sin.

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

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Language.
(b) Through religion.
(c) Art.
(d) Song.

5. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Totem and Taboo.
(b) Studies on Hysteria.
(c) Moses and Monotheism.
(d) The Interpretation of Dreams.

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

7. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Alexandre Kojève.
(d) Georges Bataille.

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

9. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?
(a) Jonah and the whale.
(b) Sharing of fish.
(c) Multiplication of loaves.
(d) Noah and his ark.

10. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Adapt to them.
(b) Get rid of them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Learn to express them.

11. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He meets with a rabbi.
(b) He is baptised.
(c) He is circumsized.
(d) He is born in wedlock.

12. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Francis.
(b) André.
(c) Hans.
(d) Juan.

13. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Religions.
(b) Classes.
(c) The sexes.
(d) Races.

14. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?
(a) Satan's sin.
(b) Original sin.
(c) False sin.
(d) The sin of past gods.

15. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Puer.
(c) Anima.
(d) Senex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

3. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

5. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

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