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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Masculine politics.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Conservative politics.
(d) Post-feminist politics.

3. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Identified.
(b) Constructed.
(c) Chosen.
(d) Caused.

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

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

6. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Entrapping assumptions.
(b) Societal mechanisms.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Foundationalism.

7. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Representation.
(c) Identity.
(d) Feminism.

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

9. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Beauvoir.

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

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

13. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
(a) A villain.
(b) A scapegoat.
(c) A savior.
(d) An evil man.

14. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Power discourse.
(c) Societal mechanisms.
(d) Feminism.

15. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Prefeminist.
(c) Postfeminist.
(d) Postgenital.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

2. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

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

4. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

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

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