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

2. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) The abject.
(d) Love.

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

4. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?
(a) Tosefta Law.
(b) Aggadic Law.
(c) Babylonian Law.
(d) Mishnaic Law.

5. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Abjection.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Voluptuousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of Celine's works is dizziness a motif?

2. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

4. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

5. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?

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