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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 Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He is baptised.
(b) He is circumsized.
(c) He meets with a rabbi.
(d) He is born in wedlock.

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

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

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

5. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Someone who never lived.
(b) A living being.
(c) A person which should be alive.
(d) Nothing at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

2. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

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

4. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

5. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

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