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

2. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Death.
(b) Violence.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) His father.

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

4. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?
(a) Humans.
(b) Fish.
(c) Any animal.
(d) Birds.

5. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Density wave theory.
(b) Climax theory.
(c) Mood theory.
(d) Classic theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

2. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

3. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?

4. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

5. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?

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