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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of women for men.
(b) The sexual preference of men for women.
(c) The sexual preference of women for women.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.

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

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Post-feminist politics.
(d) Masculine identity.

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

5. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Inconclusive.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Masculinist.
(d) Inactive.

6. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Sex.
(b) Identity.
(c) Woman.
(d) Gender.

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

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

9. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Masculinism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Linguistic sexuality.
(d) Identity.

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

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

12. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Woman.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Gender.
(d) Sex.

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

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

15. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?
(a) Ontology of gender.
(b) Ontology of sex.
(c) Ontology of liberation.
(d) Ontology of feminism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

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

4. Butler describes the presumed existing feminine identity as which of the following?

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

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