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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. Celine's doctoral dissertation dealt with what topic?
(a) Flaviviruses.
(b) Bunyaviruses.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Puerperal fever.

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Physical.
(b) Metaphorical.
(c) Logical.
(d) Literal.

3. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He is baptised.
(b) He meets with a rabbi.
(c) He is circumsized.
(d) He is born in wedlock.

4. Which of Celine's family members had the first name Celine?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His grandmother.

5. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The pedophilia taboo.
(b) The rape taboo.
(c) The incest taboo.
(d) The murder taboo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

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

3. 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?

4. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?

5. What does Kristeva say Celine's depictions of females all lean toward?

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