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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) Marital affairs.
(c) Financial affairs.
(d) Sexual affairs.

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

3. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?
(a) Blue eyes.
(b) Flat noses.
(c) Blonde hair.
(d) Small chins.

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

5. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Alexandre Kojève.
(c) Georges Bataille.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

2. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

3. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

4. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

5. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?

(see the answer key)

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