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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Kristeva.
(c) Riviere.
(d) Freud.

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

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

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

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

10. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Faithful.

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

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

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

14. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Sex.
(b) Masquerade.
(c) Identification.
(d) Gender.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wittig say that which was not determinative of sex?

2. Butler asks if what kind of human can exist?

3. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?

4. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

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

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