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

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

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

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?
(a) Society does not impact identity.
(b) Societal mechanisms are more important than identity.
(c) Requirements precede identity.
(d) Entrapping assumptions are necessary.

5. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Identity.
(c) Domination.
(d) Feminism.

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

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

8. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?
(a) Marginilizes people.
(b) Undermines identity.
(c) Supports feminist politics.
(d) Increases identity.

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

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

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

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

13. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Representation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

5. What is the first effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

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