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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) Psychotic.
(b) Repressed.
(c) Dependent.
(d) Oppressed.

2. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Social forces.

3. Butler claims that genders can be which of the following?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Undermined.
(c) Parodies.
(d) Exemplified.

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

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

6. What kind of gender norms make certain social forms possible and others impossible, according to Butler?
(a) Variable.
(b) Solidified.
(c) Infallible.
(d) Concrete.

7. According to Butler, which cannot be fixed in advance?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Identity.
(c) Masquerade.
(d) Gender.

8. Butler asks if what kind of human can exist?
(a) Post-gendered.
(b) Transgendered.
(c) Gendered.
(d) Pre-gendered.

9. Wittig say that which was not determinative of sex?
(a) Physical features.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Mind.
(d) The brain.

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

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

12. Kristeva argues that which of the following exists in poetry?
(a) Dependence.
(b) Energy.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Defeat.

13. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Faithful.

14. Butler makes the claim that gender is a kind of what?
(a) Act.
(b) Sex.
(c) Parody.
(d) Emotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The theory of semiotic aspects of language seems to be a direct critique of which theorist?

2. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?

3. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?

4. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

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

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