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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. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

2. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Reflection and shame.
(c) Pride and hope.
(d) Embarrassment and sin.

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

4. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?
(a) Through rites.
(b) Through God.
(c) Through love.
(d) Through rejection.

5. 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) Physically.
(d) Sexually.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

2. 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?

3. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

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

5. 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?

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