Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Political identity.
(b) Childish identity.
(c) Feminine identiy.
(d) Societial-prescribed identity.

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Fame.

3. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Cumpulsory homosexuality.
(b) Forced homosexuality.
(c) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(d) Compulsory heterosexuality.

4. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?
(a) Political.
(b) Woman.
(c) Childish.
(d) Masculine.

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

6. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Masculinist.
(b) Inconclusive.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Inactive.

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

8. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Biology vs. destiny.
(b) Future vs. past.
(c) Science vs. religion.
(d) Faith vs. destiny.

9. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not well-defined.
(b) Well-defined.
(c) Not concrete.
(d) Concrete.

10. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Determinism.
(c) Constraint.
(d) Bodies.

11. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?
(a) Religion-science.
(b) Parent-child.
(c) Human-animal.
(d) Master-slave.

12. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Intelligible.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Constructed.
(d) Incoherent.

13. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Oppress.
(b) Support.
(c) Judge.
(d) Relieve.

14. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Antifoundationalist.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Foundationalist.

15. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Ignored.
(b) Closed tightly.
(c) Left open.
(d) Closed loosly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

4. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

5. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

(see the answer keys)

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