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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. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?
(a) The Flood.
(b) Christ's death.
(c) The Fall.
(d) Christ's birth.

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

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

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

5. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?
(a) The flood.
(b) The original sin of Adam.
(c) Satan.
(d) Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristeva call Celine's idea that through violent confrontation, each person is reduced to the same, miserable state?

2. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?

3. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?

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

5. Kristeva cites Neusner as having studied what law?

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