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

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

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

4. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) Canada.
(b) Spain.
(c) Mexico.
(d) India.

5. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Nuclear family.
(c) Original sin.
(d) The holy trinity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

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

3. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

5. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

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