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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Blank slate.
(b) Low state.
(c) Zero state.
(d) Nothing state.

3. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Their background.
(c) Language.
(d) Other people.

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

5. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Joel.
(d) Numbers.

6. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repression.
(b) All repulsion.
(c) All hatred.
(d) All desire.

7. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Rappaport.
(c) Hartmann.
(d) Kris.

8. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?
(a) Fish.
(b) Humans.
(c) Birds.
(d) Any animal.

9. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A substance.
(b) An argument.
(c) A pseudo-object.
(d) A question.

10. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its ambiguity.
(b) Its explicitness.
(c) Its lucidity.
(d) Its universality.

11. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Substitute.
(b) The Other.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Nothing.

12. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) Food.
(b) Sex.
(c) The mother.
(d) Water.

13. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?
(a) Menstruation.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Rape.
(d) Sex.

14. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Language.
(d) Experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

2. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

3. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?

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

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