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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?
(a) The flood.
(b) Hell.
(c) The original sin of Adam.
(d) Satan.

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

3. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) The abject.
(d) Love.

4. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Fears.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Sexual desires.
(d) Biological needs.

5. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Exodus.
(b) Leviticus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Numbers.

6. According to Kristeva, Christ invited his disciples to see what from several angles?
(a) His teachings about God.
(b) Ethical issues.
(c) The validity of laws.
(d) Issues regarding his diety.

7. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Religion and morality.
(c) Denial and hatred.
(d) Lawlessness and insubordination.

8. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(b) The Tree of God and Man.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

9. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?
(a) Small chins.
(b) Blue eyes.
(c) Blonde hair.
(d) Flat noses.

10. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) Alexandre Kojève.
(c) Georges Bataille.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

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

12. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Great.
(c) Small.
(d) Valuable.

13. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?
(a) Moses.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Noah.

14. 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) Joel.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Numbers.

15. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

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. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

5. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

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