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

2. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Desire.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hate.

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

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Song.
(b) Language.
(c) Through religion.
(d) Art.

5. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(b) The Tree of Life.
(c) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(d) The Tree of God and Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

2. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

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

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

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