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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. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(b) Moses and Monotheism.
(c) Studies on Hysteria.
(d) Totem and Taboo.

2. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) Sex.
(b) The outdoors.
(c) Women.
(d) Impurity.

3. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Hasenclever.
(b) Fürst.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Broecking.

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Love.
(c) Lusts.
(d) Thoughts.

5. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Alexandre Kojève.
(c) Georges Bataille.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

2. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

3. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

5. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

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