View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Introduction and Section I, Structuralism's Critical Exchange.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Support.
(b) Judge.
(c) Oppress.
(d) Relieve.

2. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Heterosexuals.
(b) Hermaphrodites.
(c) Homosexuals.
(d) Aesexuals.

3. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Allowing incest.
(b) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(c) Allowing women to have an education.
(d) Forbidding incest.

4. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Simple.
(b) Unified.
(c) Complex.
(d) False.

5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Supports feminist politics.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Increases identity.
(d) Marginilizes people.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

2. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?

3. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

4. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

5. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 208 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample