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

2. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A person which should be alive.
(b) A living being.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Someone who never lived.

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

4. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) Water.
(b) Sex.
(c) Food.
(d) The mother.

5. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of God and Man.
(c) The Tree of Angels and Demons.
(d) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

2. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?

3. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

4. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?

5. What belief states that Christ is simultaneously man and God?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kristeva say about how fears and desires are formed in young children?

2. How does Kristeva explain phobias?

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

4. What does Kristeva say about how the New Testament contradicts the traditional Christian thoughts about the origin of sin?

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

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

7. How does Kristeva say Christianity uses separation and division?

8. What does Kristeva say are the two prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?

9. How does Kristeva point out that Judaism differs from other old world religions in terms of worshiping gods?

10. How does Kristeva says the abject can be expressed?

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