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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ours to Jew or Die.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Meningitis.
(c) Ablepsy.
(d) Cholera.

3. In "Death on the Installment Plan," who teaches the narrator to read?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His uncle.

4. Kristeva says that the reader is thrown into what kind of state when reading Celine?
(a) Strange.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Familar.
(d) Deviant.

5. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?
(a) The belief in prophets.
(b) The monotheistic nature.
(c) The belief in the Torah.
(d) The belief in the coming of the Messiah.

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

2. During the 1930s, what group does Kristeva say was calling for equality?

3. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

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

5. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

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