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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, . . . Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?
(a) Peter.
(b) John.
(c) Paul.
(d) Mark.

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

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

4. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?
(a) Body.
(b) Soul.
(c) Sin.
(d) Heaven.

5. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Lawlessness and insubordination.
(b) Religion and morality.
(c) Denial and hatred.
(d) Rejection and fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?

2. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

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

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?

5. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

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