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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, From Parody to Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Masculine desire.
(c) Feminine desire.
(d) Homoeroticism.

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

3. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Unconscious identification.
(c) Maternal identification.
(d) Gender identification.

4. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Angry revolution.
(b) Masculine revolution.
(c) Utopian revolution.
(d) Poltiical revolution.

5. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
(a) Hommosexuality.
(b) Bestiality.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, how does Wittig apply the idea of fictive sex?

2. Butler says that if we deconstruct which of the following, we need not deconstruct feminist politics?

3. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?

4. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

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

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