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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Post-political.
(d) Post-masculinity.

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Domination.

3. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Gender.
(b) Identity.
(c) Society.
(d) Construction.

4. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from the body.
(c) Disconnected from destiny.
(d) Disconnected from feminism.

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Religion-science.
(b) Parent-child.
(c) Human-animal.
(d) Master-slave.

6. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Sexes.
(b) Bodies.
(c) Constraints.
(d) Constructions.

7. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Postfeminist.
(c) Prefeminist.
(d) Postgenital.

8. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Obscures reality.
(b) Foundationalism results.
(c) Feminist politics strengthen.
(d) Societal mechanisms result.

9. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Inconclusive.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Inactive.
(d) Masculinist.

10. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?
(a) A scapegoat.
(b) A hidden agent.
(c) A savior.
(d) A villain.

11. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Identity.

12. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Utopian revolution.
(b) Angry revolution.
(c) Masculine revolution.
(d) Poltiical revolution.

13. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Gender absence.
(b) Absence of constraint.
(c) Absence of construction.
(d) Linguistic absence.

14. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Masculinity.

15. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Intelligible.
(b) Constructed.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Incoherent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

2. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

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

5. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

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