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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. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Lusts.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Love.

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

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

4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(b) Bernard Kouchner.
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(d) James George Frazer.

5. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Low state.
(b) Nothing state.
(c) Zero state.
(d) Blank slate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

2. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

3. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

4. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

5. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?

(see the answer key)

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