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

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

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?
(a) They are humble.
(b) They are oppressive.
(c) They are based on lies.
(d) They are naive.

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Incest.
(c) Psychoanalysis.
(d) Gender.

4. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Marcuse.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Rubin.

5. Butler says that we cannot wholly separate sex from which of the following?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Gender.
(d) Phallus.

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

7. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Love.
(d) Anger.

8. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Riviere.
(c) Kristeva
(d) Freud.

9. Butler says that the boundary of the body is which of the following?
(a) Infallible.
(b) Socially constructed.
(c) Determinative.
(d) Absent.

10. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Butlerian.
(b) Neo-Lacanian.
(c) Lacanian.
(d) Kristevan.

11. How is drag used, according to Butler?
(a) Subversively.
(b) Socially.
(c) Oddly.
(d) Politically.

12. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?
(a) Theory.
(b) Language.
(c) Existence.
(d) Reality.

13. What kind of gender norms make certain social forms possible and others impossible, according to Butler?
(a) Solidified.
(b) Infallible.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Variable.

14. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Identification.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Masquerade.

15. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) Gender.
(b) The maternal.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) Melancholia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?

2. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?

3. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?

4. Who emphasized linguistic distinctions between sexes as imposing cultural heterosexuality?

5. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

(see the answer keys)

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