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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Social.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Traditional gender.

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

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

6. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?
(a) Worrisome.
(b) Wry.
(c) Self-defeating.
(d) Angsty.

7. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Theorists.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Social regulations.

8. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?
(a) Health and nutrition.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Biological research.
(d) Chemistry research.

9. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Love.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Anger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Butler describe Wittig's idea of fictive sex?

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

3. According to Butler, a lot of feminist theory relies on what type of categories?

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

5. Wittig said that the use of power is not always which of the following?

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