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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. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?
(a) Mesopotamian.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Christianity.

2. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?
(a) The father.
(b) A doctor.
(c) The mother.
(d) A psychiatrist.

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

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Flawed.
(d) Deficient.

5. Kristeva says Christianity teaches that is man is divided between spirit and what?
(a) Soul.
(b) Body.
(c) Sin.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

2. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

3. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

4. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Kristeva explain phobias?

10. How does Kristeva say the impurity phobia serves as a metaphor for society?

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