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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?
(a) Woman to woman.
(b) Brother and sister.
(c) Father and daughter.
(d) Mother and child.

2. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Angry.
(c) Worried.
(d) Excited.

3. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Repression.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Politics.
(d) Anger.

4. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Heterosexual sex.
(c) Intersexual relations.
(d) Homosexual sex.

5. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?
(a) Kristeva.
(b) Freud.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Riviere.

6. Butler claims that bodies are not which of the following?
(a) Beings.
(b) Women.
(c) Humans.
(d) Men.

7. Wittig says women must become which attribute?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Angry.

8. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Faith.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Identity.

9. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Social.
(d) Traditional gender.

10. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?
(a) Worrisome.
(b) Self-defeating.
(c) Wry.
(d) Angsty.

11. Wittig said that the use of power is not always which of the following?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Hurtful.

12. Wittig say that which was not determinative of sex?
(a) Physical features.
(b) Mind.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) The brain.

13. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?
(a) Elation.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Melancholy.

14. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Social forces.
(d) Anger.

15. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?
(a) Language.
(b) Existence.
(c) Being.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?

2. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

3. What kind of gender norms make certain social forms possible and others impossible, according to Butler?

4. Kristeva argues that which of the following exists in poetry?

5. According to Butler, a lot of feminist theory relies on what type of categories?

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