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

2. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?
(a) Mutual abjection.
(b) Violent abjection.
(c) Multiplied abjection.
(d) Unified abjection.

3. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Song.
(b) Through religion.
(c) Art.
(d) Language.

4. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His toys.
(b) His mother's body.
(c) His parents' love.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work does Kristeva describe as "stainless, serene" and as having "nostalgic beauty"?

2. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

3. What kind of narrative machine does Kristeva say leaves her shaken to the point of exaltation?

4. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

5. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?

(see the answer key)

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