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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Gender.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Sex.
(d) Iden
2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Faith vs. destiny.
(b) Future vs. past.
(c) Biology vs. destiny.
(d) Science vs. religion.
3. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Institutionalized.
(b) Faithless.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Inactive.
4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Gender.
(b) Sex.
(c) Woman.
(d) Sexuality.
5. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Determinism and free will.
(b) Science and religion.
(c) Society and self.
(d) Destiny and fate.
Short Answer Questions
1. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
3. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
4. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
5. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the argument between materialism and Lacanian positions.
2. How does Butler describe drag?
3. What is a consequence that Butler suggests results from the lack of clarity between distinctions?
4. Describe Wittig's views and arguments.
5. Describe the path Butler outlines that leads to identification.
6. What is Butler's main question in Gender Trouble?
7. According to Butler, how can one develop identity?
8. Describe the nature-culture separation.
9. Why does Lacan think women symbolize the phallus?
10. What does Butler think about coalitions?
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