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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Mood theory.
(b) Density wave theory.
(c) Classic theory.
(d) Climax theory.

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

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

4. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In the Old Testement.
(c) In a person's brain.
(d) In a person's soul.

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

6. 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.

7. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being an object.
(b) Not being a subject.
(c) Being a subject.
(d) Being nothing.

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

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

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

11. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) James George Frazer.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(d) Bernard Kouchner.

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

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

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

15. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) An angel.
(b) A god.
(c) A demon.
(d) An animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

2. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?

3. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

5. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

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