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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. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) The mother.
(b) Food.
(c) Sex.
(d) Water.

2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Hartmann.
(c) Kris.
(d) Rappaport.

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

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

5. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) Mary Douglas.
(b) M. N. Srinivas.
(c) Émile Durkheim.
(d) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

2. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

4. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

5. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?

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