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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Suffering and Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?
(a) Flat noses.
(b) Blonde hair.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Small chins.

2. 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) Joel.
(d) Numbers.

3. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Exodus.

4. 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) Learn to express them.
(c) Get rid of them.
(d) Ignore them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

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

3. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

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

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