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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Semiotics of Biblical Abomination.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Logically.
(b) Linguistically.
(c) Sexually.
(d) Physically.

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

3. In Judiasm, people are instructed to be wary of men with what trait?
(a) Flat noses.
(b) Blue eyes.
(c) Blonde hair.
(d) Small chins.

4. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?
(a) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(b) Totem and Taboo.
(c) Studies on Hysteria.
(d) Moses and Monotheism.

5. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) A person which should be alive.
(c) Someone who never lived.
(d) A living being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

2. Kristeva believes that phobias are what kind of representations of primal fears which children are forced to repress?

3. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

4. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

5. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

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