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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Butler claims that genders can be which of the following?
(a) Parodies.
(b) Undermined.
(c) Exemplified.
(d) Concrete.
2. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Butlerian.
(b) Kristevan.
(c) Lacanian.
(d) Neo-Lacanian.
3. To Kristeva, poetry helps express the dependence of who?
(a) Fathers.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Children.
(d) Grandparents.
4. Butler wants to affirm that gender is always which of the following?
(a) Found.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Disliked.
(d) Acquired.
5. Butler claims that bodies are not which of the following?
(a) Humans.
(b) Beings.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.
6. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Identity.
7. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?
(a) Incest.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Bestiality.
8. Butler says that distinctions between sexes and genders do not have to become which of the following?
(a) Nonchalant.
(b) Violent.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Angry.
9. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?
(a) Mother and child.
(b) Father and daughter.
(c) Brother and sister.
(d) Woman to woman.
10. Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Anger.
(d) Homoeroticism.
11. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?
(a) Controlling.
(b) Unnecessary.
(c) Tolerant.
(d) Misleading.
12. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The vagina.
(b) The children of the earth.
(c) The earth.
(d) The phallus.
13. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?
(a) Existence.
(b) Theory.
(c) Reality.
(d) Language.
14. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?
(a) Bisexuality.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Incest.
15. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) Misguided.
(c) Debatable.
(d) False.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is drag used, according to Butler?
2. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
3. Which of the following did Foucault critique?
4. According to Butler, a lot of feminist theory relies on what type of categories?
5. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
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