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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 is the last name of the "Journey to the End of the Night" character Arthur?
(a) Linus.
(b) Hadley.
(c) Hodge.
(d) Ganate.

2. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The Pagans.
(c) The ancient Egyptians.
(d) The ancient Greeks.

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

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

5. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Sex.
(c) Menstruation.
(d) Rape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?

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

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

4. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

5. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?

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