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

2. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) André.
(b) Francis.
(c) Hans.
(d) Juan.

3. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Rape and murder.
(b) Godlessness and murder.
(c) Incest and murder.
(d) Incest and rape.

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

5. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Their background.
(c) Language.
(d) Other people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

2. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

3. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

4. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

5. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

(see the answer key)

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