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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Stubborn.
(b) Faithless.
(c) Inactive.
(d) Institutionalized.

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) A premise.
(c) A reason.
(d) An excuse.

4. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Identity.
(c) Domination.
(d) Acceptance.

5. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Heterosexuals.
(d) Women.

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

7. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?
(a) Not all bad.
(b) All bad.
(c) Never patriarchal.
(d) All patriarchal.

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

9. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Identity.

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

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

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

13. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Determinism and free will.
(b) Society and self.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Destiny and fate.

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

15. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(b) Matrix of feminism.
(c) Matrix of gender trouble.
(d) Matrix of feminist politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

2. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?

3. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

4. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

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

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