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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 believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Metaphorical.
(b) Physical.
(c) Literal.
(d) Logical.

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All hatred.
(b) All repulsion.
(c) All desire.
(d) All repression.

3. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Deficient.
(d) Flawed.

5. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) The father.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) The mother.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

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

3. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

5. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

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