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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Homosexuals.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) Aesexuals.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

8. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Identity.
(c) Gender.
(d) Sex.

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

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

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

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

13. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?
(a) Societial-prescribed identity.
(b) Childish identity.
(c) Political identity.
(d) Feminine identiy.

14. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Absence of construction.
(b) Linguistic absence.
(c) Gender absence.
(d) Absence of constraint.

15. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Intelligible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

3. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?

4. According to Butler, oppression requires which of the following?

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

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