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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?
(a) Incest and rape.
(b) Rape and murder.
(c) Godlessness and murder.
(d) Incest and murder.

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

6. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Get rid of them.
(b) Learn to express them.
(c) Adapt to them.
(d) Ignore them.

7. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Senex.
(b) Puer.
(c) Anima.
(d) Oedipus.

8. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Love.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Lusts.

9. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?
(a) Octypus.
(b) Jellyfish.
(c) Shellfish.
(d) Goldfish.

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

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

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

13. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) The father.
(c) The mother.
(d) A doctor.

14. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Nonexistent.
(b) Bad.
(c) Clean.
(d) Confusing.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?

4. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?

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

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