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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?
(a) Incorporation.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Heteronormative.
(d) Faith.

2. Butler says gender can be which of the following volitionally?
(a) Policed.
(b) Controlled.
(c) Fixed.
(d) Changed.

3. Wittig says women must become which attribute?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Authoritative.
(c) Angry.
(d) Intelligent.

4. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Feminine desire.
(b) Homoeroticism.
(c) Masculine desire.
(d) Homosexuality.

5. Who emphasized linguistic distinctions between sexes as imposing cultural heterosexuality?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Wittig.
(c) Butler.
(d) Barbin.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?
(a) Faith.
(b) Identity.
(c) Gender.
(d) Sex.

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

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

15. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Maternal identification.
(c) Gender identification.
(d) Unconscious identification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?

2. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?

3. Butler claims that bodies are not which of the following?

4. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

5. Butler says that we cannot wholly separate sex from which of the following?

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