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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. What does Butler want to see in relation to politics?
(a) Feminist politics.
(b) Post-feminist politics.
(c) Conservative politics.
(d) Masculine politics.

2. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Trust.
(b) Unity.
(c) Desire.
(d) Destiny.

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Sex.
(b) Faith.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Motherhood.

4. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Politics.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

5. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Woman.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

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

3. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

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

5. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the feminine identity created, according to Foucault?

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

3. According to Witting, what determines gender?

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

5. What is gender identification?

6. Why do some feminists say that feminine identity is vital, according to Butler?

7. What does the term "masquerade" reference?

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

9. Describe masculine subjects as Butler views them.

10. What does Butler mean when she suggests there is more mere convention in biological research than is supposed?

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