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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its explicitness.
(b) Its universality.
(c) Its ambiguity.
(d) Its lucidity.

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

5. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?
(a) The ancient Greeks.
(b) The ancient Egyptians.
(c) The Jews.
(d) The Pagans.

6. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Ablepsy.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Meningitis.

7. 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?
(a) Linguistically.
(b) Physically.
(c) Sexually.
(d) Logically.

8. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) André.
(b) Juan.
(c) Francis.
(d) Hans.

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

10. 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) Ignore them.
(b) Get rid of them.
(c) Learn to express them.
(d) Adapt to them.

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

12. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Nothing.
(b) The Other.
(c) The Something.
(d) The Substitute.

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

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

15. For disobeying God in the Old Testament, Adam was forbidden from eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(c) The Tree of God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

3. According to Kristeva, Christ invited his disciples to see what from several angles?

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

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

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