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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
(a) A vague aim.
(b) An unspecified object.
(c) A definite object.
(d) Roots in reality.

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

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

12. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Art.
(c) Language.
(d) Experience.

13. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?
(a) The sin of past gods.
(b) False sin.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Satan's sin.

14. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Inexpressible.
(d) Explainable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

3. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?

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

5. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

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