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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. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) The abject.

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

3. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Flood.
(b) Christ's death.
(c) The Fall.
(d) Christ's birth.

4. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Hartmann.
(c) Kris.
(d) Rappaport.

5. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Moses.
(d) The holy spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

2. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

3. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

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

(see the answer key)

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