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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Power discourse.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Societal mechanisms.

3. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?
(a) Post-feminist.
(b) Post-masculinity.
(c) Post-structuralist.
(d) Post-political.

4. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Sex.
(b) Woman.
(c) Identity.
(d) Gender.

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

6. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of clarity.
(b) Lack of men.
(c) Lack of constraint.
(d) Lack of societal mechanism.

7. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Oppress.
(b) Support.
(c) Judge.
(d) Relieve.

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

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

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

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

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

13. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Institutionalized.
(b) Inactive.
(c) Faithless.
(d) Stubborn.

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

15. Butler believes that gender is which of the following?
(a) Caused.
(b) Constructed.
(c) Chosen.
(d) Identified.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?

2. Butler says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

3. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

5. Butler describes construction as caught between which two elements?

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