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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. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Substitute.
(b) The Something.
(c) The Nothing.
(d) The Other.

2. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?
(a) Technology.
(b) Demons.
(c) Other religions.
(d) Nature.

3. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?
(a) Rape.
(b) Sex.
(c) Menstruation.
(d) Childbirth.

4. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) A unity with nature.
(b) Man's evil nature.
(c) Man's kindness.
(d) Noah's faithfulness.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

2. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

3. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

4. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

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

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