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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. 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) Politcal affiliation.
(b) Education.
(c) Social status.
(d) Marital status.

2. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
(a) Great.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Small.

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

4. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?
(a) Horror.
(b) Object.
(c) Noun.
(d) Abject.

5. 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) Capitalists.
(b) National Socialists.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?

3. Which of Celine's works does Kristeva say best captures the feelings of the abject?

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

5. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from what book?

(see the answer key)

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