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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Herculine argues that the univocal idea of sex serves which of the following?
(a) Linguistic laws.
(b) Social regulations.
(c) Cultural laws.
(d) Liberal views.

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

4. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?
(a) Identity.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Melancholia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Butler says that we cannot wholly separate sex from which of the following?
(a) Women.
(b) Gender.
(c) Men.
(d) Phallus.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva argues for the semiotic as a source of which of the following?

2. According to Butler, laws are results of which of the following?

3. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?

4. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?

5. What type of media did Herculine write?

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