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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. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Gender.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Sex.
(d) Iden

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

3. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Foundationalism.

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Bigoted.
(b) Fair.
(c) Circular.
(d) Powerful.

5. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Allowing incest.
(b) Forbidding women to breastfeed.
(c) Allowing women to have an education.
(d) Forbidding incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

2. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?

3. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?

4. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

5. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Levi-Strauss mean by the totality and closure of language?

2. What does Butler believe about the definition of gender?

3. What does Butler think about coalitions?

4. Describe the argument between materialism and Lacanian positions.

5. What suggestions did Luce Irigaray make?

6. How does Butler describe identification as being social constructed?

7. According to Butler, what approach must all women take?

8. How did Butler describe the concept of splitting sex and gender?

9. Are Butler's conclusions effective?

10. What are the effects of the counterexamples of well-defined concepts, such as a well-defined category of women?

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