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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) Gender.
(b) Identification.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Incorporation.

2. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Social regulations.

3. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?
(a) Controlling.
(b) Tolerant.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Unnecessary.

4. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Poems.
(b) Novels.
(c) Journals.
(d) Scripts.

5. Butler says that the boundary of the body is which of the following?
(a) Determinative.
(b) Socially constructed.
(c) Absent.
(d) Infallible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that bodies are not which of the following?

2. Which theorist explains the semiotic aspect of language?

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

4. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

5. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?

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