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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler says that distinctions between sexes and genders do not have to become which of the following?
(a) Violent.
(b) Nonchalant.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Angry.

2. Herculine argues that the univocal idea of sex serves which of the following?
(a) Cultural laws.
(b) Social regulations.
(c) Liberal views.
(d) Linguistic laws.

3. Butler says that we cannot wholly separate sex from which of the following?
(a) Men.
(b) Gender.
(c) Women.
(d) Phallus.

4. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?
(a) Freud.
(b) Butler.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Levi-Strauss.

5. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Lacanian.
(b) Butlerian.
(c) Kristevan.
(d) Neo-Lacanian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

2. Butler makes the claim that gender is a kind of what?

3. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?

4. To Kristeva, what relationship does the maternal body represent fluidity between?

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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