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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?
(a) Society.
(b) Power discourse.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Feminism.

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Sex.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Faith.

4. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Masculinity.

5. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Increases identity.
(b) Supports feminist politics.
(c) Marginilizes people.
(d) Undermines identity.

6. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fame.
(d) Beauty.

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

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

9. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?
(a) Homoeroticism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Masculinity.

10. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Reluctantly.
(b) Totalizing.
(c) Politely.
(d) Generously.

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

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

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

14. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Ignored.
(b) Closed loosly.
(c) Left open.
(d) Closed tightly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?

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

3. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?

4. Butler says that which group can appropriate the idea of sexual difference?

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

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