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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 does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Fears.
(c) Sexual desires.
(d) Biological needs.

2. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) The mother.
(d) The father.

3. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Mood theory.
(b) Climax theory.
(c) Density wave theory.
(d) Classic theory.

4. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Adapt to them.
(b) Get rid of them.
(c) Learn to express them.
(d) Ignore them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?

2. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?

3. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

4. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

5. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

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