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

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Love.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Lusts.
(d) Thoughts.

3. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through love.
(b) Through God.
(c) Through rejection.
(d) Through rites.

4. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(b) James George Frazer.
(c) Bernard Kouchner.
(d) Jean-Paul Sartre.

5. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Anima.
(b) Senex.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Puer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

2. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

3. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

4. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

5. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

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