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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 the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Inexpressible.
(b) Misunderstood.
(c) Explainable.
(d) Unknown.

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

3. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that "the truth of this world is to" what?
(a) Live.
(b) Grow.
(c) Love.
(d) Die.

4. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Multiplied abjection.
(b) Violent abjection.
(c) Mutual abjection.
(d) Unified abjection.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?

2. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

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

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

5. One of the chief themes of Celine's work is the struggle between what groups?

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