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

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Art.
(d) Language.

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Fears.
(b) Sexual desires.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Biological needs.

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Inexpressible.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Misunderstood.
(d) Explainable.

5. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Incest and rape.
(b) Incest and murder.
(c) Godlessness and murder.
(d) Rape and murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

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

4. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

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

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