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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Love.
(b) The abject.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

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

14. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?
(a) The belief in the coming of the Messiah.
(b) The belief in prophets.
(c) The belief in the Torah.
(d) The monotheistic nature.

15. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?
(a) Humans.
(b) Any animal.
(c) Fish.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

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

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

5. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

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