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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Political oppression.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Cultural laws.
(d) Language.

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

5. Which of the following terms does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Inconclusive.
(b) Masculinist.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Inactive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
(a) High intelligence.
(b) Low intelligence.
(c) Good intentions.
(d) Bad intentions.

14. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?
(a) All bad.
(b) Not all bad.
(c) Never patriarchal.
(d) All patriarchal.

15. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) A premise.
(c) A cause.
(d) An excuse.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?

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