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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through apposition, what does Wittig think lesbianism engages?
(a) Anger.
(b) Homoeroticism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Heterosexuality.

2. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?
(a) Identity.
(b) Gender.
(c) Sex.
(d) Melancholia.

3. Butler makes the claim that gender is a kind of what?
(a) Act.
(b) Sex.
(c) Parody.
(d) Emotion.

4. According to Butler, laws are results of which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Social forces.

5. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?
(a) Political.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Psychotic.
(d) Psychoanalytic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?

2. How is drag used, according to Butler?

3. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?

4. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?

5. How does Butler describe Wittig's idea of fictive sex?

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