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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. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?
(a) Sexual affairs.
(b) Marital affairs.
(c) Financial affairs.
(d) Hygienic affairs.

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

3. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Nothing state.
(b) Zero state.
(c) Low state.
(d) Blank slate.

4. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Language.
(b) Art.
(c) Through religion.
(d) Song.

5. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Horrific.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Phenomenological.
(d) Logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

2. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?

3. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?

4. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?

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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