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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Flood.
(d) Christ's birth.

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

3. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?
(a) Other religions.
(b) Technology.
(c) Nature.
(d) Demons.

4. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Angry.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Anti-social.
(d) Evil.

5. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?
(a) Tosefta Law.
(b) Mishnaic Law.
(c) Aggadic Law.
(d) Babylonian Law.

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

7. 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.

8. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?
(a) Birds.
(b) Fish.
(c) Insects.
(d) Cud.

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

10. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) Moses and Monotheism.
(b) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(c) Studies on Hysteria.
(d) Totem and Taboo.

11. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Death.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) Violence.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

2. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

4. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

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

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