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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When looking at impurity and the abject, Kristeva says things which extend beyond the body's margin are considered what?
(a) Sinful.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Good.
(d) Clean.

2. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Hate.
(b) Need.
(c) Desire.
(d) Anger.

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

4. Whose work does Kristeva look to help explain the relation of impurity and the abject?
(a) M. N. Srinivas.
(b) Mary Douglas.
(c) Émile Durkheim.
(d) E. E. Evans-Pritchard.

5. Kristeva says the fears a child has are pre-linguistic and therefore are what?
(a) Explainable.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Inexpressible.
(d) Misunderstood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When looking at Old Testament laws, the eating of meat was forbidden to man prior to what?

2. What example does Kristeva give for the imagery of separation as shown in the Gospel?

3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?

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

5. Kristeva makes use of what complex to explain the genesis of the abject?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kristeva say is the most plausible interpretation of the laws regarding ritual impurity in the Old Testament?

2. What does Kristeva say about how fears and desires are formed in young children?

3. According to traditional beliefs in Christianity, how does Adam's original sin taint human freedoms?

4. How does Mary Douglas explain the idea that impurity about the body is a phobia derived from the abject?

5. What are the two stages in which Kristeva says the quest for the "Other" breaks down?

6. How does Kristeva point out that Judaism differs from other old world religions in terms of worshiping gods?

7. According to class theory, how are the drives of an individual divided?

8. What is the correlation Kristeva presents between the importance of social status in sexual relationships and the equality between the sexes?

9. How do some societies try to purify a "defiled" person?

10. What example does Kristeva give phobias which involves beautiful women?

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