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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. 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?
(a) Get rid of them.
(b) Learn to express them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Adapt to them.

2. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?
(a) He meets with a rabbi.
(b) He is circumsized.
(c) He is baptised.
(d) He is born in wedlock.

3. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother's body.
(c) His parents' love.
(d) His toys.

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

5. According to the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle, all desire is modeled on the pattern of what?
(a) Evolution.
(b) The holy trinity.
(c) Original sin.
(d) Nuclear family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

2. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

3. In the Bible, man is forbidden from drinking the blood of what?

4. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

5. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?

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