View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of clarity.
(b) Lack of societal mechanism.
(c) Lack of men.
(d) Lack of constraint.

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

5. Some sexuality is enhanced by which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Law.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Society.
(d) Illness.

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

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

8. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Iden
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

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

10. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Choice.
(b) Societal mechanism.
(c) Substance.
(d) Social construction.

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

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

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

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

15. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?
(a) Matriarchy.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

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

3. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

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

5. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 350 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample