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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, . . . Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?
(a) All hatred.
(b) All desire.
(c) All repulsion.
(d) All repression.

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says that impurity is identified with contact with whom?
(a) God.
(b) Evil supernatural forces.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Adam and Eve.

3. Leviticus talks about the impurity associated with what disease?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Ablepsy.
(d) Meningitis.

4. The drives of an individual can be divided into sexual drives and drives from the ego, according to what theory?
(a) Classic theory.
(b) Density wave theory.
(c) Mood theory.
(d) Climax theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

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

3. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?

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

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

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