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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. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(c) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(d) The Tree of God and Man.

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?
(a) Education.
(b) Politcal affiliation.
(c) Social status.
(d) Marital status.

3. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In a person's soul.
(c) In a person's brain.
(d) In the Old Testement.

4. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Puer.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Senex.
(d) Anima.

5. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Violence.
(b) His father.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

2. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

3. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

4. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

5. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

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