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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. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Love.
(b) Lusts.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Thoughts.

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

3. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Education.
(b) Politcal affiliation.
(c) Marital status.
(d) Social status.

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Totem and Taboo.
(b) Studies on Hysteria.
(c) Moses and Monotheism.
(d) The Interpretation of Dreams.

5. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Narcissism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Self-loathing.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

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

4. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

5. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

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