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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?
(a) A savior.
(b) A scapegoat.
(c) A villain.
(d) An evil man.

2. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Judge.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Support.
(d) Relieve.

3. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?
(a) Theorists.
(b) Women.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Masculinists.

4. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Language.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Utopian society.
(d) Oppression.

5. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Allowing incest.
(b) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(c) Allowing women to have an education.
(d) Forbidding incest.

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

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

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

9. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of determinism.
(b) Metaphysics of constraint.
(c) Metaphysics of substance.
(d) Metaphysics of bodies.

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

11. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Compulsory heterosexuality.
(b) Forced homosexuality.
(c) Cumpulsory homosexuality.
(d) Voluntary heterosexuality.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

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

3. Butler states that women must take which approach?

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

5. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?

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