What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is “performed” ?

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1. What does Judith Butler mean when she suggests that gender is “performed” ?

   A. Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.
   B. Gender roles do not exist.
   C. Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

2. In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept of gender ?

   A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
   B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
   C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.
   D. Gender is largely a cultural construct.

3. In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept of gender ?

   A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
   B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
   C. Gender is largely a cultural construct.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?

   A. Yeats’s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats’s life and in his poetry.
   B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.
   C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.
   D. Both A and B

5. Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does “prodigality” mean ?

   A. Wasteful extravagance
   B. Promiscuity
   C. Return from the dead
   D. Redemption

6. Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” ?

   A. “Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
   B. “And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
   C. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
   D. “Mother died today”

7. In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,” William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?

   A. To “amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols”
   B. To “prolong the moment of contemplation”
   C. To “counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language”
   D. To “make poetry new”

8. In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?

   A. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.
   B. Letting them choose their own mates.
   C. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
   D. Paying them very well.

9. The genre Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” is______________?

   A. Mystery.
   B. Science Fiction.
   C. Horror.
   D. Tragedy.

10. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

    A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
    B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
    C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
    D. All of the above