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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of feminism.
(b) Matrix of gender trouble.
(c) Matrix of feminist politics.
(d) Matrix of ntelligibility.

2. Butler claims that which of the following produce feminine identity?
(a) Societal mechanisms.
(b) Entrapping assumptions.
(c) Foundationalism.
(d) Feminist politics.

3. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Language.
(c) Political oppression.
(d) Cultural laws.

4. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(b) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(c) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(d) How sexality is a societal construction.

5. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Identity.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

3. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

4. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

5. Butler states that women must take which approach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Herculine Barbin.

2. What does the maternal body represent to Kristeva?

3. Are Butler's conclusions effective?

4. What is Butler's thesis in Gender Trouble?

5. Why does Lacan find language misleading?

6. Describe the argument between materialism and Lacanian positions.

7. Describe the path Butler outlines that leads to identification.

8. Describe Wittig's views and arguments.

9. Describe Butler's view of feminist theory.

10. What does Butler say about the causes of laws?

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