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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which of the following did Foucault critique?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Gender identity.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

7. According to Butler, laws are results of which of the following?
(a) Social forces.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Prohibition.

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

9. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The earth.
(b) The vagina.
(c) The children of the earth.
(d) The phallus.

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

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

12. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Neo-Lacanian.
(b) Butlerian.
(c) Kristevan.
(d) Lacanian.

13. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?
(a) Angst.
(b) Repression.
(c) Subversion.
(d) Aaer.

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

15. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Identity.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) Hopelessness.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who emphasized linguistic distinctions between sexes as imposing cultural heterosexuality?

2. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?

3. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

4. According to Butler, how does Wittig apply the idea of fictive sex?

5. Butler says gender can be which of the following volitionally?

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