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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Classes.
(b) Races.
(c) The sexes.
(d) Religions.

2. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?
(a) Rape.
(b) Sex.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Menstruation.

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

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

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

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

7. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He is born in wedlock.
(b) He meets with a rabbi.
(c) He is circumsized.
(d) He is baptised.

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

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

10. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?
(a) Embodiment.
(b) Manifestation.
(c) Incarnation.
(d) Epitome.

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

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

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

14. 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) Their brothers.
(c) Society.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

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

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

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

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