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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?
(a) More open.
(b) Less open.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Disappearing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true, according to Foucault?

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

3. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

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

5. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

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