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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. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) The abject.

2. One interpretation of the laws in the Old Testament, which Kristeva cites, says they are the arbitrary will of who?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The holy spirit.
(d) God.

3. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Flawed.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Deficient.

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

5. Kristeva says the Pagans are seen as living very closely with what?
(a) Demons.
(b) Nature.
(c) Other religions.
(d) Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?

2. What does Kristeva say is, historically, man's primary response to the perversion caused by the abject?

3. In the Old Testament, Adam was punished for eating from what?

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

5. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?

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