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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 Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(b) The Tree of Life.
(c) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(d) The Tree of God and Man.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A literary device.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A necessary stage in natural selection.

7. Though Kristeva says it is impossible to tell the exact order of causality, notions of what also play a large part in purity customs?
(a) Marital status.
(b) Politcal affiliation.
(c) Social status.
(d) Education.

8. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Adapt to them.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Get rid of them.
(d) Learn to express them.

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

10. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(b) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(c) James George Frazer.
(d) Bernard Kouchner.

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

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

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

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

15. In Christ's teachings, Kristeva says he wanted to move away from the single minded absolutism of whom?
(a) The Pagans.
(b) The ancient Egyptians.
(c) The ancient Greeks.
(d) The Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?

2. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?

3. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

4. Who was the first person to have specified that the plane of abjection is that of the subject/object relationship?

5. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?

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