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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 that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) The sexes.
(b) Races.
(c) Religions.
(d) Classes.

2. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Deficient.

3. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All hatred.
(b) All repression.
(c) All desire.
(d) All repulsion.

4. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Flood.
(b) The Fall.
(c) Christ's birth.
(d) Christ's death.

5. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) An angel.
(b) A demon.
(c) An animal.
(d) A god.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

3. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

4. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

5. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?

(see the answer key)

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