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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says that the Christian account of sin could be defined as what?
(a) Objectied subjection.
(b) Objectional abjection.
(c) Abjectionist objection.
(d) Subjectified abjection.

2. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?
(a) His mother's body.
(b) His father.
(c) His toys.
(d) His parents' love.

3. What does Kristeva say God did not want Adam to become?
(a) An animal.
(b) A god.
(c) A demon.
(d) An angel.

4. What religion does Kristeva say Christianity emerged from?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Mormonism.
(d) Paganism.

5. Kristeva says Freud echos what German writer when he says "In the beginning was the deed"?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Broecking.
(c) Fürst.
(d) Hasenclever.

6. Kristeva says that Jewish laws are a result of the combination of psychological forces and what aspect of the Jewish religion?
(a) The belief in the Torah.
(b) The belief in the coming of the Messiah.
(c) The belief in prophets.
(d) The monotheistic nature.

7. Kristeva says that the ritualization of defilement and purification is also responsible for creating inequality between whom?
(a) Religions.
(b) The sexes.
(c) Races.
(d) Classes.

8. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?
(a) Mesopotamian.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Judaism.

9. Traditionally, Christians link all sin to what?
(a) Hell.
(b) Satan.
(c) The original sin of Adam.
(d) The flood.

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

11. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?
(a) Noah and his ark.
(b) Sharing of fish.
(c) Multiplication of loaves.
(d) Jonah and the whale.

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

13. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Missing sex organs.
(c) His father.
(d) Death.

14. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?
(a) Anti-social.
(b) Evil.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Angry.

15. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?
(a) Learn to express them.
(b) Adapt to them.
(c) Get rid of them.
(d) Ignore them.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oedipus complex assumes that the child's first object of desire is what?

2. In order to be eaten, according to the Old Testament, an animal has to eat what?

3. In what country is it strictly forbidden for a person of one caste to procreate with a person of another caste?

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

5. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

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