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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 Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desire.

2. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Octypus.
(c) Shellfish.
(d) Jellyfish.

3. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Logical.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Physical.
(d) Literal.

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

5. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?
(a) Multiplication of loaves.
(b) Sharing of fish.
(c) Jonah and the whale.
(d) Noah and his ark.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Celine, what is the foundation of human existence?

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

3. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

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

5. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

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