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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. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) Evil supernatural forces.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Adam and Eve.
(d) God.

2. 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 God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

3. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) The mother.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) The father.

4. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Pride and hope.
(c) Embarrassment and sin.
(d) Reflection and shame.

5. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

2. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

3. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

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

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