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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 that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hate.

2. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?
(a) Senex.
(b) Puer.
(c) Anima.
(d) Oedipus.

3. Kristeva says Freud is successful in his treatment of the subject-object relation when he approaches it from the perspective of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hate.
(d) Desire.

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

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) Sexually.
(b) Linguistically.
(c) Physically.
(d) Logically.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freud says "In the beginning was the deed" at the end of which of his books?

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

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

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?

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

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