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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Incorporation.
(c) Identification.
(d) Gender.

2. Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Anger.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Homoeroticism.

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

4. Butler says that Rubin's story relies too much on which of the following?
(a) Aaer.
(b) Angst.
(c) Repression.
(d) Subversion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?
(a) Dependent.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Oppressed.
(d) Repressed.

13. Wittig claims that _____ is not the rejection of heterosexuality?
(a) Homoeroticism.
(b) Lesbianism.
(c) Masculinity.
(d) Feminism.

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

15. Butler says that the boundary of the body is which of the following?
(a) Determinative.
(b) Absent.
(c) Infallible.
(d) Socially constructed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?

3. Butler says that distinctions between sexes and genders do not have to become which of the following?

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

5. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?

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