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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 does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Song.
(b) Language.
(c) Art.
(d) Through religion.
2. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) A living being.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A person which should be alive.
(d) Someone who never lived.
3. Kristeva says the abject is never considered to be what?
(a) An argument.
(b) A substance.
(c) A question.
(d) A pseudo-object.
4. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?
(a) Mishnaic Law.
(b) Aggadic Law.
(c) Babylonian Law.
(d) Tosefta Law.
5. Since the boy is forced to repress his desire for the "maternal body" at a young age, Kristeva says he has not yet understood the situation in what way?
(a) Linguistically.
(b) Physically.
(c) Logically.
(d) Sexually.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?
2. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?
3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
4. Kristeva says that the Christian account of sin could be defined as what?
5. Kristeva points out that there is a corresponding amount of importance placed upon social status in societies where the autonomy of women is relatively what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Kristeva say man gained permission to eat some animals?
2. How does Mary Douglas explain the idea that impurity about the body is a phobia derived from the abject?
3. Explain Kristeva's idea of the "zero state."
4. What example does Kristeva give phobias which involves beautiful women?
5. How does Kristeva say incest relates to the abject?
6. How does Kristeva say the abject relates to lust?
7. How does Kristeva say Christianity and Judaism differ in the thoughts of impurity?
8. How does Kristeva say the impurity phobia serves as a metaphor for society?
9. What are the two stages in which Kristeva says the quest for the "Other" breaks down?
10. What reason does Kristeva give for why women in the Jewish faith are seen as impure after having children?
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