View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Art.
(b) Through religion.
(c) Language.
(d) Song.

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) God.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The holy spirit.

3. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He meets with a rabbi.
(b) He is circumsized.
(c) He is baptised.
(d) He is born in wedlock.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

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

5. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 218 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample