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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A person which should be alive.
(b) Someone who never lived.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) A living being.

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

3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) A stage in childhood development.
(c) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(d) A literary device.

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

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

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

7. According to Kristeva, boys eventually resign themselves to the fact that they can never have their mothers' bodies out of fear of whom?
(a) God.
(b) Their fathers.
(c) Their brothers.
(d) Society.

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

9. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Deficient.
(d) Perfect.

10. 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) Self-loathing.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Sin.

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

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

13. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) God.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Evil supernatural forces.
(d) Adam and Eve.

14. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Desire.
(d) Fear.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?

2. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?

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

4. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

5. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

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