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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 the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?
(a) Technology.
(b) Nature.
(c) Demons.
(d) Other religions.

2. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Races.
(b) The sexes.
(c) Religions.
(d) Classes.

3. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Broecking.
(c) Fürst.
(d) Hasenclever.

4. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Leviticus.
(d) Genesis.

5. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Logical.
(d) Overly sexual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

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

4. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

5. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

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