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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unlike Jews, Kristeva says Christians disregard what?
(a) The ten commandments.
(b) The New Testament.
(c) The Levitical law.
(d) Christ's teachings.

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

3. Insofar as the repressed desires are related to the proper use of one's body, Kristeva says the body becomes an object of what?
(a) Rejection and fear.
(b) Pride and hope.
(c) Reflection and shame.
(d) Embarrassment and sin.

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

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

6. To whom does Kristeva attribute the theory of structural anthropology?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre.
(b) Bernard Kouchner.
(c) James George Frazer.
(d) Claude Lévi-Strauss.

7. What is the name of the little boy who is afraid of horses in Chapter 2?
(a) Francis.
(b) Hans.
(c) Juan.
(d) André.

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

9. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?
(a) Someone who never lived.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) A living being.
(d) A person which should be alive.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Kristeva call it when a child is in a perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Zero state.
(b) Nothing state.
(c) Low state.
(d) Blank slate.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

2. Kristeva says purity is usually associated with conducting what type of affairs in certain ways?

3. Kristeva accepts the psychoanalytic theories of what psychoanalyst?

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

5. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?

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