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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. 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) Nonexistent.
(b) Bad.
(c) Clean.
(d) Confusing.

2. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Embarrassment and sin.
(b) Reflection and shame.
(c) Pride and hope.
(d) Rejection and fear.

3. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Death.
(b) Violence.
(c) His father.
(d) Missing sex organs.

4. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All repulsion.
(b) All repression.
(c) All hatred.
(d) All desire.

5. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?
(a) India.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Canada.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

2. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?

3. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

4. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?

5. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to class theory, how are the drives of an individual divided?

2. What two ways of relating to the abject does Kristeva says Dostoevsky presents in "The Possessed"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does social status play a role in purity customs in India?

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

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