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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Nuclear family.
(c) The holy trinity.
(d) Original sin.

2. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Overly sexual.
(c) Logical.
(d) Hateful.

3. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Totem and Taboo.
(b) Moses and Monotheism.
(c) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(d) Studies on Hysteria.

4. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?
(a) Multiplication of loaves.
(b) Jonah and the whale.
(c) Sharing of fish.
(d) Noah and his ark.

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

6. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) Mary Douglas.
(b) M. N. Srinivas.
(c) Émile Durkheim.
(d) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

7. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Buddhism.

8. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Mesopotamian.

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

10. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Violence.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) Death.

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

12. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?
(a) Incarnation.
(b) Manifestation.
(c) Embodiment.
(d) Epitome.

13. 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) Valuable.
(d) Small.

14. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Embarrassment and sin.
(c) Pride and hope.
(d) Reflection and shame.

15. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Broecking.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Hasenclever.
(d) Fürst.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

2. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?

3. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

4. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

5. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

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