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

2. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Sexual desires.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fears.
(d) Biological needs.

3. According to Kristeva, Christ invited his disciples to see what from several angles?
(a) Ethical issues.
(b) Issues regarding his diety.
(c) His teachings about God.
(d) The validity of laws.

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

5. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Schemers.
(b) Overly sexual.
(c) Logical.
(d) Hateful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

2. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?

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

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

5. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kristeva say incest relates to the abject?

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

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

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

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

6. What example does Kristeva give phobias which involves beautiful women?

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

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

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

10. What reason does Kristeva give for why women in the Jewish faith are seen as impure after having children?

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