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

2. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its universality.
(b) Its ambiguity.
(c) Its explicitness.
(d) Its lucidity.

3. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(c) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(d) The Tree of God and Man.

4. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Missing sex organs.
(b) Death.
(c) His father.
(d) Violence.

5. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Overly sexual.
(c) Hateful.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

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

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

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

5. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

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