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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) Less open.
(b) Disappearing.
(c) More open.
(d) Ignored.

2. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of men for women.
(b) The sexual preference of women for women.
(c) The sexual preference of women for men.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.

3. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Masculinism.
(d) Linguistic sexuality.

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

5. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from the body.
(b) Disconnected from destiny.
(c) Disconnected from feminism.
(d) Disconnected from feminist politics.

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

7. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-political.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Post-feminist.
(d) Post-masculinity.

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

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

10. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
(a) Bad intentions.
(b) Good intentions.
(c) Low intelligence.
(d) High intelligence.

11. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Identity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Domination.

12. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?
(a) Society.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identity.
(d) Construction.

13. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?
(a) Society.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Power discourse.
(d) Liberation.

14. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Masculinists.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Utopians.
(d) Structuralists.

15. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Undermines identity.
(b) Increases identity.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Marginilizes people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?

2. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

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

4. What does non-reciprocity relate to?

5. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?

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