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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Journals.
(b) Novels.
(c) Scripts.
(d) Poems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. According to Butler, a lot of feminist theory relies on what type of categories?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Infallible.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Concrete.

11. Butler asks if what kind of human can exist?
(a) Gendered.
(b) Transgendered.
(c) Post-gendered.
(d) Pre-gendered.

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

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

14. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?
(a) Reality.
(b) Existence.
(c) Language.
(d) Theory.

15. Butler wishes to show where and how which of the following operates?
(a) Incest.
(b) Bestiality.
(c) Hommosexuality.
(d) Oppression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?

3. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?

4. Butler says gender can be which of the following volitionally?

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

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