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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Narcissism.
(d) Self-loathing.

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

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

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Hate.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Anger.

5. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Zero state.
(b) Nothing state.
(c) Blank slate.
(d) Low state.

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

7. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) A pseudo-object.
(b) An argument.
(c) A question.
(d) A substance.

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

9. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Mesopotamian.
(d) Christianity.

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

11. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?
(a) Paul.
(b) Peter.
(c) Mark.
(d) John.

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

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

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

15. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Hasenclever.
(b) Fürst.
(c) Broecking.
(d) Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

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

5. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

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