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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Butler says that distinctions between sexes and genders do not have to become which of the following?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Violent.
(c) Angry.
(d) Nonchalant.

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

4. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Identity.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) Faith.
(d) Hopelessness.

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

6. How is drag used, according to Butler?
(a) Subversively.
(b) Oddly.
(c) Politically.
(d) Socially.

7. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) The maternal.
(b) Gender.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) Melancholia.

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

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

10. Butler describes repression of bisexuality as a locus of which of the following?
(a) Incest.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Bisexuality.
(d) Prohibition.

11. How does Butler feel about the strategy of subversion?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Worried.
(c) Excited.
(d) Angry.

12. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?
(a) Levi-Strauss.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Butler.
(d) Freud.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?

3. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?

4. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?

5. Wittig says women must become which attribute?

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