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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Education.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Political action.

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

3. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How sexality is a societal construction.
(b) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(c) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(d) How societal mechanisms create identity.

4. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Identity.
(c) Difficulties.
(d) Revolution.

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

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

7. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

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

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

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

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

12. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Gender roles.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Solidarity.

13. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Language.
(c) Political oppression.
(d) Cultural laws.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

2. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

3. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

5. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?

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