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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A theme Kristeva points out in Chapter 3 is that what is inside the margin is good, and whatever is outside of the margin is what?
(a) Bad.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Clean.

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) Evil supernatural forces.
(b) God.
(c) Adam and Eve.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

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

4. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Juan.
(b) Francis.
(c) André.
(d) Hans.

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. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Dirty.
(b) Good.
(c) Sinful.
(d) Clean.

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

8. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Schemers.
(c) Logical.
(d) Overly sexual.

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

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

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

12. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through rites.
(b) Through love.
(c) Through God.
(d) Through rejection.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

3. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

5. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

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