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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Semiotics of Biblical Abomination.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of God and Man.
(b) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) The Tree of Angels and Demons.

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

3. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) A demon.
(b) An angel.
(c) A god.
(d) An animal.

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

5. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(b) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(c) The Tree of God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

2. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

3. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?

5. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

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