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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. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?
(a) Birds.
(b) Fish.
(c) Any animal.
(d) Humans.

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

3. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Noah's faithfulness.
(b) Man's kindness.
(c) Man's evil nature.
(d) A unity with nature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?

2. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

3. Kristeva says Judaism always conceived of impurity as what kind of reality?

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?

5. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do some societies try to purify a "defiled" person?

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

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

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

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