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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) Sex.
(b) Impurity.
(c) The outdoors.
(d) Women.

2. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Small.
(c) Great.
(d) Valuable.

3. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His father.
(b) His toys.
(c) His mother's body.
(d) His parents' love.

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

5. According to Christianity, a person is born with what type of sin?
(a) The sin of past gods.
(b) Original sin.
(c) False sin.
(d) Satan's sin.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

4. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

5. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two stages in which Kristeva says the quest for the "Other" breaks down?

2. What does Kristeva say is the most plausible interpretation of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?

3. How does Kristeva say Christianity and Judaism differ in the thoughts of impurity?

4. What does Kristeva mean when she talks about "subjectified abjection"?

5. What rules come with the permission to eat meat in the Old Testament?

6. How does Kristeva say the abject relates to lust?

7. How does Kristeva say the impurity phobia serves as a metaphor for society?

8. How does Kristeva say the Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle flawed?

9. What reason does Kristeva give for why Christianity disregards the Levitical law?

10. What is the correlation Kristeva presents between the importance of social status in sexual relationships and the equality between the sexes?

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