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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. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its ambiguity.
(b) Its explicitness.
(c) Its universality.
(d) Its lucidity.

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His father.
(b) His toys.
(c) His mother's body.
(d) His parents' love.

3. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Sexual affairs.
(b) Hygienic affairs.
(c) Marital affairs.
(d) Financial affairs.

4. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Nonexistent.
(b) Clean.
(c) Bad.
(d) Confusing.

5. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?
(a) Sexually.
(b) Logically.
(c) Physically.
(d) Linguistically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

2. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

3. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?

5. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

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