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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the Bible forbid eating camels, according to Kristeva's reading?
(a) It does not have a parted hoof.
(b) It has humps.
(c) It does not chew cud.
(d) It is meant to be ridden.

3. Kristeva says women are often unfairly considered to be what?
(a) Logical.
(b) Schemers.
(c) Overly sexual.
(d) Hateful.

4. Who does Kristeva say is considered the spiritual forefather of Christians?
(a) Moses.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Noah.
(d) Aaron.

5. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?
(a) Art.
(b) Song.
(c) Language.
(d) Through religion.

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

7. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?
(a) Horrific.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Logical.
(d) Phenomenological.

8. What taboo does Kristeva say it is easy to see develop out of the abject?
(a) The murder taboo.
(b) The rape taboo.
(c) The pedophilia taboo.
(d) The incest taboo.

9. Kristeva quotes "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" from what book of the Bible?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Joel.
(d) Numbers.

10. Kristeva posits that the fear of what is a phobia that develops as a response to the abject of mother-lust?
(a) The outdoors.
(b) Women.
(c) Impurity.
(d) Sex.

11. 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) Desire.
(d) Hate.

12. Kristeva says Christ taught that impurity was something that took place where?
(a) In a person's imagination.
(b) In a person's soul.
(c) In the Old Testement.
(d) In a person's brain.

13. Kristeva says the permission, given in the Old Testament, to eat some animals is given out of a recognition of what?
(a) Man's evil nature.
(b) A unity with nature.
(c) Noah's faithfulness.
(d) Man's kindness.

14. What does Kristeva name as the chief features of the abject?
(a) Its explicitness.
(b) Its ambiguity.
(c) Its universality.
(d) Its lucidity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Kristeva say states that impurity is something which can never be obliterated?

2. What book of the Bible addresses rules around eating meat?

3. 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?

4. How many prevailing interpretations of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament does Kristeva say there are?

5. According to Jewish rituals, a newborn boy is considered pure on what condition?

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