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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. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(b) The Tree of Life.
(c) The Tree of God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

2. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?
(a) The belief in the coming of the Messiah.
(b) The monotheistic nature.
(c) The belief in prophets.
(d) The belief in the Torah.

3. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Hate.
(c) Need.
(d) Anger.

4. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Sexual desires.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Biological needs.
(d) Fears.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

4. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?

5. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

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