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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, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?
(a) God.
(b) Society.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Their brothers.

2. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) The holy trinity.
(b) Original sin.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Nuclear family.

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

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Language.
(b) Through religion.
(c) Art.
(d) Song.

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His mother's body.
(b) His parents' love.
(c) His father.
(d) His toys.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

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

4. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

5. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

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