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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 soul.
(d) In a person's brain.

2. Kristeva says that the Christian account of sin could be defined as what?
(a) Objectional abjection.
(b) Subjectified abjection.
(c) Abjectionist objection.
(d) Objectied subjection.

3. Chapter 7 "Suffering and Horror" begins with a quote from Celine which says "one can be a virgin with respect to Horror as one is a virgin toward" what?
(a) Abjection.
(b) Anger.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Voluptuousness.

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) Evil supernatural forces.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) God.
(d) Adam and Eve.

5. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The holy spirit.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says narrative in abject literature assumes that there is a sharp distinction between subject and what?

2. Kristeva says that today's universe is divided between boredom, abjection, and what?

3. In "Journey to the End of the Night," the narrator says that one should "always be frightened" of what?

4. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

5. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

(see the answer key)

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