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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. 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) Voluptuousness.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Abjection.

2. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?
(a) Moses.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Noah.
(d) Abraham.

3. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was unhappy with the division that was caused by economic inequality, even if they did not call for radical economic restructuring?
(a) National Socialists.
(b) Communists.
(c) Capitalists.
(d) Republicans.

4. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Internal.
(c) Metaphorical.
(d) Material.

5. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Meningitis.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Ablepsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?

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

3. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

4. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?

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

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