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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. Kristeva says literature undermines itself when it attempts to analyze what?
(a) Society.
(b) The object.
(c) Its characters.
(d) The abject.

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

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

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

5. According to Kristeva, Christ invited his disciples to see what from several angles?
(a) The validity of laws.
(b) Issues regarding his diety.
(c) Ethical issues.
(d) His teachings about God.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

2. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

3. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

4. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

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

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