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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Identification.
(b) Melancholia.
(c) Gender.
(d) Incorporation.

2. Butler suggests that perhaps sexual desire is instituted by which of the following?
(a) Subversion.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Anger.

3. Butler says gender can be which of the following volitionally?
(a) Controlled.
(b) Changed.
(c) Policed.
(d) Fixed.

4. Who does Butler compare Foucault to?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Marcuse.
(c) Rubin.
(d) Riviere.

5. Gender Trouble claims that drag parodies which of the following?
(a) Faith.
(b) Heterosexuality.
(c) Gender identity.
(d) Sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Foucault critique?

2. Which term does Butler use to describe Kristeva's theory?

3. Who does Butler believe mistakenly holds the idea of a separation between sex and gender?

4. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?

5. Who emphasized linguistic distinctions between sexes as imposing cultural heterosexuality?

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