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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Foundationalist.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Antifoundationalist.

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

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

6. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?
(a) Science and religion.
(b) Destiny and fate.
(c) Determinism and free will.
(d) Society and self.

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

8. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Feminine identity.
(b) Feminist politics.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Unified categories.

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

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

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

12. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Postgenital.
(b) Prefeminist.
(c) Postfeminist.
(d) Pregenital.

13. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Foundationalism results.
(b) Obscures reality.
(c) Societal mechanisms result.
(d) Feminist politics strengthen.

14. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Gender roles.
(c) Masculinity.
(d) Solidarity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?

3. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

4. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?

5. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

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