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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Anger.
(b) Politics.
(c) Repression.
(d) Oppression.

7. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Gender identification.
(b) Unconscious identification.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Maternal identification.

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

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

10. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?
(a) Social regulations.
(b) Conservative views.
(c) Liberation views.
(d) Liberal views.

11. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identity.
(d) Faith.

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

13. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Gender identification.
(c) Maternal identification.
(d) Unconscious identification.

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

15. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The children of the earth.
(b) The earth.
(c) The phallus.
(d) The vagina.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

4. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?

5. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

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