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

2. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Mormonism.
(d) Buddhism.

3. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

4. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Flood.
(b) Christ's birth.
(c) Christ's death.
(d) The Fall.

5. Unlike Jews, Kristeva says Christians disregard what?
(a) The ten commandments.
(b) The Levitical law.
(c) The New Testament.
(d) Christ's teachings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?

2. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

3. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

4. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

5. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?

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