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

2. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Broecking.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Hasenclever.
(d) Fürst.

3. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Climax theory.
(b) Classic theory.
(c) Mood theory.
(d) Density wave theory.

4. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) A god.
(b) A demon.
(c) An angel.
(d) An animal.

5. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) M. N. Srinivas.
(b) Mary Douglas.
(c) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
(d) Émile Durkheim.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

3. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?

4. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mary Douglas explain the idea that impurity about the body is a phobia derived from the abject?

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

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

5. What does it mean when Kristeva says she gives a "phenomenological" account of the abject?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Kristeva explain phobias?

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