Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Test | Final Test - Easy

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Kristeva argues for the semiotic as a source of which of the following?
(a) Dependent subversion.
(b) Indirect subversion.
(c) Psychosis subversion.
(d) Effective subversion.

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

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

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

8. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?
(a) Marcuse.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Rubin.

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

10. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?
(a) Misleading.
(b) Controlling.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Tolerant.

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

12. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?
(a) Intersexed.
(b) Maternal.
(c) Heterosexual.
(d) Homosexual.

13. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?
(a) Bisexuality.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Bestiality.
(d) Incest.

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

15. To Kristeva, poetry helps express the dependence of who?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Grandparents.
(c) Fathers.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

2. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

3. What is Herculine's last name?

4. Kristeva argues that which of the following exists in poetry?

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

(see the answer keys)

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