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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Man's kindness.
(b) Noah's faithfulness.
(c) A unity with nature.
(d) Man's evil nature.

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

3. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) Christ's birth.
(b) The Fall.
(c) The Flood.
(d) Christ's death.

4. 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?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Self-loathing.

5. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Financial affairs.
(b) Sexual affairs.
(c) Marital affairs.
(d) Hygienic affairs.

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

7. 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 Nothing.
(c) The Other.
(d) The Something.

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

9. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Horrific.
(b) Phenomenological.
(c) Logical.
(d) Absurd.

10. Unlike Jews, Kristeva says Christians disregard what?
(a) The Levitical law.
(b) Christ's teachings.
(c) The ten commandments.
(d) The New Testament.

11. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Marital status.
(b) Education.
(c) Social status.
(d) Politcal affiliation.

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

13. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?
(a) Insects.
(b) Fish.
(c) Cud.
(d) Birds.

14. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) Mexico.
(b) India.
(c) Spain.
(d) Canada.

15. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The holy spirit.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?

2. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

3. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

5. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

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