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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 says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Hygienic affairs.
(b) Sexual affairs.
(c) Financial affairs.
(d) Marital affairs.

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

3. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) Mexico.
(b) India.
(c) Canada.
(d) Spain.

4. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Evil.
(d) Sin.

5. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Anti-social.
(b) Evil.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

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