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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Suffering and Horror.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Claude Lévi-Strauss.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(c) Bernard Kouchner.
(d) James George Frazer.

2. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hate.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

3. In abject literature, Kristeva says there must be a narrator who is distinct from what?
(a) His characters.
(b) His emotions.
(c) What he is narrating.
(d) Society.

4. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It is meant to be ridden.
(b) It has humps.
(c) It does not have a parted hoof.
(d) It does not chew cud.

5. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Religions.
(b) Classes.
(c) Races.
(d) The sexes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of sea creatures are forbidden from being eaten, according to the Old Testament?

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

3. Who in the New Testament said that sin did not enter the world until law was created?

4. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

5. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?

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