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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Riviere.
(c) Rubin.
(d) Marcuse.

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

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

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

5. Foucault says that one should not be defined by which of the following?
(a) Sex.
(b) Truth.
(c) Absence.
(d) Outside.

6. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

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

8. Butler says gender can be which of the following volitionally?
(a) Policed.
(b) Fixed.
(c) Controlled.
(d) Changed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Gender Trouble claims that drag parodies which of the following?
(a) Gender identity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Heterosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lacan viewed cultural meaning's need for relating women to the maternal to be which of the following?

2. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

3. What type of media did Herculine write?

4. Heterosexism in a masquerade is sustained by which of the following, as Butler describes?

5. Wittig claims that _____ is not the rejection of heterosexuality?

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