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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. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It is meant to be ridden.
(b) It does not have a parted hoof.
(c) It has humps.
(d) It does not chew cud.

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

3. 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) Embarrassment and sin.
(d) Pride and hope.

4. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?
(a) The Tree of Life.
(b) The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(c) The Tree of God and Man.
(d) The Tree of Angels and Demons.

5. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?
(a) Sex.
(b) The mother.
(c) Water.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

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

3. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?

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

5. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

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