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

2. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It does not have a parted hoof.
(b) It is meant to be ridden.
(c) It does not chew cud.
(d) It has humps.

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A living being.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A person which should be alive.
(d) Someone who never lived.

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

5. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Puer.
(b) Senex.
(c) Anima.
(d) Oedipus.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

3. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

4. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

5. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

(see the answer key)

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