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Questions

1."Poetry ought to have a mother as well as a father." Which theorist makes this declaration?

A. Barthes

B. Woolf

C. Foucault

D. Anzaldúa

2. What determination does Sedgwick make regarding sex and gender?

A. that sex and gender are practically and theoretically inseparable

B. that neither sex nor gender are real in any sense of the word

C. that sex is socially determined while gender is biologically determined

D. that gender refers to socially determined behaviors and sex refers to reproduction

3. How does Lyotard describe modernism as a project?

A. as breaking with tradition to form new ways of thinking and living

B. as an extension of Baroque philosophy

C. as the emancipation from grand narratives

D. as the death of avang-gardism

4. Which of the following is one of the qualities of a Borderlands consciousness?

A. an inflexible belief in racial purity

B. a complete retreat from White Patriarchal society

C. a return to old myths and old perspectives

D. a racial, ideological, cultural, and biological cross-pollinization

5. What claim does Foucault make about sexuality in the nineteenth century?

A. that Victorians completely neglected sexual discourse for an entire century

B. that there was an incredible incitement of sexual discourse within the social sciences

C. that sexuality as such did not exist in previous eras

D. that Victorians fell into a sexual mania for decades

6. What is the ultimate fate of Shakespeare's sister?

A. she finds success as a playwright

B. she publishes her works but is not accepted until after her death

C. she kills herself

D. she channels her androgyny into art