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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) Totem and Taboo.
(b) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(c) Moses and Monotheism.
(d) Studies on Hysteria.

2. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through rites.
(b) Through rejection.
(c) Through love.
(d) Through God.

3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Small.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Great.

4. 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.

5. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Octypus.
(c) Jellyfish.
(d) Shellfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

3. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

4. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

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