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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?
(a) Satan.
(b) The flood.
(c) Hell.
(d) The original sin of Adam.

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

4. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
(a) Freud.
(b) Kris.
(c) Hartmann.
(d) Rappaport.

5. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Buddhism.

6. 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 brothers.
(b) Society.
(c) God.
(d) Their fathers.

7. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Art.
(b) Language.
(c) Through religion.
(d) Song.

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

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

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

11. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Man's kindness.
(b) Noah's faithfulness.
(c) Man's evil nature.
(d) A unity with nature.

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

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

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 prophets.
(b) The belief in the Torah.
(c) The monotheistic nature.
(d) The belief in the coming of the Messiah.

15. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?
(a) Body.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Sin.
(d) Soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

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

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?

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

5. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

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