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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Desire.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Unity.
(d) Trust.

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

5. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Angry revolution.
(b) Masculine revolution.
(c) Poltiical revolution.
(d) Utopian revolution.

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

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

8. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Social construction.
(b) Societal mechanism.
(c) Choice.
(d) Substance.

9. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Identity.
(b) Sex.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Gender.

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

11. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Beauvoir.
(b) Freud.
(c) Irigaray.
(d) Lacan.

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

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

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

15. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Gender.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Sex.
(d) Iden

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler states that women must take which approach?

3. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?

4. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

5. What is homoeroticism?

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