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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?
(a) Psychoanalytic.
(b) Political.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Psychotic.

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

3. Butler claims that genders can be which of the following?
(a) Exemplified.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Parodies.
(d) Undermined.

4. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Incorporation.
(b) Sex.
(c) Identity.
(d) Melancholy of gender.

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The phallus.
(b) The earth.
(c) The children of the earth.
(d) The vagina.

Short Answer Questions

1. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?

2. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?

3. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?

4. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

5. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?

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