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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?
2. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?
3. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
5. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Kristeva say Christianity uses separation and division?
2. According to traditional beliefs in Christianity, how does Adam's original sin taint human freedoms?
3. What two ways of relating to the abject does Kristeva says Dostoevsky presents in "The Possessed"?
4. How does social status play a role in purity customs in India?
5. What reason does Kristeva give for why Christianity disregards the Levitical law?
6. How does Kristeva say the Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle flawed?
7. Why does Kristeva say man gained permission to eat some animals?
8. What does Kristeva say happens when one stops trying to seek out the "Other"?
9. How do some societies try to purify a "defiled" person?
10. What is the correlation Kristeva presents between the importance of social status in sexual relationships and the equality between the sexes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore the concept of the abject. How does Kristeva go about explaining what the abject is? Where does the abject come from? What does Kristeva mean when she says it is neither subject nor object? How does she relate her feelings about the abject to the reader? How does she use her personal experiences with these feelings to explain the abject?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the way phobias relate to the abject in the book. Where does Kristeva say phobias come from? What are people really afraid of? What do phobias seem to represent, with regard to the abject?
Essay Topic 3
Explore the theme of language throughout the book. What does Kristeva seem to think about language and how it can be used? What reason does Kristeva give for why the abject exists outside of language? How can people relate to the abject if not through language? What do you think is the purpose of trying to explain the abject through an essay if it can cannot be felt through words?
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