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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?
(a) Repressed.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Oppressed.

2. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?
(a) Psychotic.
(b) Political.
(c) Psychoanalytic.
(d) Feminist.

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) Mothers.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Fathers.
(d) Children.

5. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) An effect.
(c) A nuisance.
(d) A root.

6. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?
(a) Secondary sexuality.
(b) Non-binary sexuality.
(c) Extreme sexuality.
(d) Lack of sexuality.

7. Wittig said that the use of power is not always which of the following?
(a) Helpful.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Conscious.
(d) Hurtful.

8. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Identification.
(b) Gender.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Incorporation.

9. What view does Kristeva generally have toward laws?
(a) They are based on lies.
(b) They are humble.
(c) They are naive.
(d) They are oppressive.

10. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Unconscious identification.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) Gender identification.
(d) Maternal identification.

11. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?
(a) Chemistry research.
(b) Biological research.
(c) Health and nutrition.
(d) Psychology.

12. Wittig claims that _____ is not the rejection of heterosexuality?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Homoeroticism.
(d) Lesbianism.

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

14. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Freud.
(c) Kristeva
(d) Riviere.

15. According to Butler, which lies outside of language and symbolism?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Subvesion.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Bisexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?

2. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

4. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?

5. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?

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