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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. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The incest taboo.
(b) The rape taboo.
(c) The murder taboo.
(d) The pedophilia taboo.

2. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Mood theory.
(b) Climax theory.
(c) Density wave theory.
(d) Classic theory.

3. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Hate.

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

5. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Death.
(b) The abject.
(c) Love.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

4. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

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

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