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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler claims that bodies are not which of the following?
(a) Beings.
(b) Women.
(c) Humans.
(d) Men.

2. According to Butler, how does Wittig apply the idea of fictive sex?
(a) Nonchalantly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Crudely.
(d) Jealously.

3. How is drag used, according to Butler?
(a) Politically.
(b) Subversively.
(c) Socially.
(d) Oddly.

4. To Kristeva, poetry helps express the dependence of who?
(a) Fathers.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Children.
(d) Grandparents.

5. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Repression.
(c) Politics.
(d) Oppression.

6. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Journals.
(b) Novels.
(c) Scripts.
(d) Poems.

7. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?
(a) Homosexual sex.
(b) Heterosexual sex.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Intersexual relations.

8. Butler wants to affirm that gender is always which of the following?
(a) Hidden.
(b) Acquired.
(c) Disliked.
(d) Found.

9. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Being.
(c) Existence.
(d) Language.

10. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Brother and sister.
(c) Mother and child.
(d) Woman to woman.

11. Butler claims that bodies are not what kind of boundaries?
(a) Political.
(b) Infallible.
(c) Variable.
(d) Concrete.

12. Heterosexism in a masquerade is sustained by which of the following, as Butler describes?
(a) Reality.
(b) Faith.
(c) Appearances.
(d) Illusion.

13. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) Gender.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) The maternal.

14. Foucault says that one should not be defined by which of the following?
(a) Absence.
(b) Sex.
(c) Outside.
(d) Truth.

15. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Elation.
(d) Sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?

2. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?

3. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

4. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

5. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?

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