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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. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?
(a) Feelings.
(b) Love.
(c) Lusts.
(d) Thoughts.

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

3. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Biological needs.
(c) Sexual desires.
(d) Fears.

4. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Substitute.
(b) The Nothing.
(c) The Other.
(d) The Something.

5. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?
(a) Leviticus.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Genesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to many anthropologists and psychologists, what are the two acts which are condemned almost universally by all societies?

2. In some societies, Kristeva says a person who is defiled becomes clean how?

3. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?

4. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?

5. What act in Jewish laws makes women impure for weeks?

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