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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. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Zero state.
(b) Low state.
(c) Blank slate.
(d) Nothing state.

2. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Man's kindness.
(b) Noah's faithfulness.
(c) Man's evil nature.
(d) A unity with nature.

3. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Exodus.
(d) Joel.

4. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) Christ's death.
(b) Christ's birth.
(c) The Fall.
(d) The Flood.

5. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Education.
(b) Marital status.
(c) Politcal affiliation.
(d) Social status.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

2. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

3. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

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

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

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