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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 taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The murder taboo.
(b) The rape taboo.
(c) The incest taboo.
(d) The pedophilia taboo.

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?
(a) Logical.
(b) Physical.
(c) Literal.
(d) Metaphorical.

3. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) An animal.
(b) A demon.
(c) An angel.
(d) A god.

4. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) The holy spirit.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.

5. Kristeva says the abject is somewhere between being an object and what?
(a) Not being an object.
(b) Being nothing.
(c) Not being a subject.
(d) Being a subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?

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

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

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?

5. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Kristeva say man gained permission to eat some animals?

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

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

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

7. What does Kristeva say about how fears and desires are formed in young children?

8. How does Kristeva explain phobias?

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

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

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