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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Utopian society.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Language.

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

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

4. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Education.
(b) Political action.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Foundationalism.

5. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Entrapping assumptions.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Societal mechanisms.

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

7. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
(a) A savior.
(b) An evil man.
(c) A villain.
(d) A scapegoat.

8. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Circular.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Fair.
(d) Bigoted.

9. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?
(a) Men.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

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

11. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Linguistic sexuality.
(d) Masculinism.

12. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Fame.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Politics.

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

14. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(b) Matrix of gender trouble.
(c) Matrix of feminism.
(d) Matrix of feminist politics.

15. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?
(a) Matriarchy.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Patriarchy.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

2. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

3. Butler states that women must take which approach?

4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

5. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

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