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

2. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Woman.
(b) Sex.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Gender.

3. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?
(a) Faithless.
(b) Inactive.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Institutionalized.

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

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?
(a) Absence of construction.
(b) Linguistic absence.
(c) Gender absence.
(d) Absence of constraint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?

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

3. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

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

5. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Witting, what determines gender?

2. Describe the disagreement between Kristeva, Lacan, and Butler.

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

4. Why does Butler say that rectifying pre-patriarchal scheme is problematic?

5. Describe the argument between Foucault and Barbin.

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

7. What does Butler hope Gender Trouble will affirm?

8. What is Kristeva's view of law?

9. According to Butler, what is a woman's identity associated with?

10. What does the maternal body represent to Kristeva?

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