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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 fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Explainable.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Inexpressible.

2. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Education.
(b) Social status.
(c) Marital status.
(d) Politcal affiliation.

3. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) Mary Douglas.
(b) M. N. Srinivas.
(c) Émile Durkheim.
(d) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

4. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Being nothing.
(b) Being a subject.
(c) Not being an object.
(d) Not being a subject.

5. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Physical.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Literal.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

4. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

5. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?

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