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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Not well-defined.
(b) Not concrete.
(c) Well-defined.
(d) Concrete.

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

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

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

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

10. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?
(a) Identity.
(b) Domination.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Utopia.

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

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

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

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

15. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Identified.
(c) Caused.
(d) Chosen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true, according to Foucault?

2. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

3. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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

5. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

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