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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Politely.
(b) Totalizing.
(c) Reluctantly.
(d) Generously.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of men for men.
(b) The sexual preference of women for men.
(c) The sexual preference of men for women.
(d) The sexual preference of women for women.

8. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Representation.
(c) Identity.
(d) Solidarity.

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

10. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?
(a) Power discourse.
(b) Society.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Liberation.

11. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Women.
(b) Politics.
(c) Men.
(d) Children.

12. 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.

13. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Social construction.
(c) Societal mechanism.
(d) Substance.

14. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Societal mechanisms.
(c) Power discourse.
(d) Feminism.

15. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gender.
(c) Iden
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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

3. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

4. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

5. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

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