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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. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?
(a) Beasts.
(b) Death.
(c) Violence.
(d) Men.

3. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In a person's brain.
(c) In the Old Testement.
(d) In a person's soul.

4. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It is meant to be ridden.
(b) It does not have a parted hoof.
(c) It does not chew cud.
(d) It has humps.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

3. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

4. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?

5. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

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