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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. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Woman.
(b) Sex.
(c) Identity.
(d) Gender.

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

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Faith.
(b) Sex.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Motherhood.

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Gender roles.

5. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Language.
(c) Cultural laws.
(d) Political oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

2. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

3. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

4. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

5. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What suggestions did Luce Irigaray make?

2. Describe the argument between materialism and Lacanian positions.

3. What is a consequence that Butler suggests results from the lack of clarity between distinctions?

4. Why does Butler say that rectifying pre-patriarchal scheme is problematic?

5. According to Butler, what do some feminists think about gender?

6. What parameters does bisexuality lie outside?

7. What does Butler think of Wittig's ideas?

8. What are the effects of the counterexamples of well-defined concepts, such as a well-defined category of women?

9. What is Butler's thesis in Gender Trouble?

10. Describe Butler's feelings about the body.

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