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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva views female homosexuality as which of the following?
(a) Natural.
(b) Psychosis.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Healing.

2. How does Butler describe Wittig's idea of fictive sex?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Insignificant.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Important.

3. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Psychoanalytic.
(b) Bisexuality.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Subversion.

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

5. Butler says that the boundary of the body is which of the following?
(a) Infallible.
(b) Determinative.
(c) Absent.
(d) Socially constructed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Riviere.
(c) Rubin.
(d) Marcuse.

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

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

15. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?
(a) An individual without an identity.
(b) An individual with loose morals.
(c) A party where people hide their identities.
(d) An individual who wants to appear mainstream.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?

2. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?

3. How is drag used, according to Butler?

4. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

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

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