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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 purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Financial affairs.
(b) Hygienic affairs.
(c) Sexual affairs.
(d) Marital affairs.

2. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?
(a) Material.
(b) Internal.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Metaphorical.

3. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It is meant to be ridden.
(b) It has humps.
(c) It does not have a parted hoof.
(d) It does not chew cud.

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

5. Chapter 8 "Those Females Who Wreck the Infinite" begins with a quote that was taken from a letter written to whom?
(a) Milton Hindus.
(b) Pauline Smith.
(c) Terry Teachout.
(d) Whittaker Chambers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

3. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

4. Kristeva quotes Celine as saying he is the son of a woman who repairs what?

5. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?

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