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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. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?
(a) Sharing of fish.
(b) Multiplication of loaves.
(c) Noah and his ark.
(d) Jonah and the whale.

2. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) An angel.
(b) An animal.
(c) A demon.
(d) A god.

3. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Noah's faithfulness.
(b) Man's evil nature.
(c) Man's kindness.
(d) A unity with nature.

4. 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) Evil.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Sin.
(d) Narcissism.

5. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) The outdoors.
(b) Sex.
(c) Women.
(d) Impurity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

2. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

3. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

4. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

5. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

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