Gender & Sexuality in Dutch Literature

Fill out the missing word in the headline of the 1978 issue of Time magazine about the Netherlands: ‘Drawing The Line: Has … Gone Too Far?’

a) Permissiveness.

b) Emancipation.

c) The sexual revolution.

d) Calvinism.

Which ‘binary opposition’ did not occur in Joost van den Vondel’s Biblical tragedy Jephthah?

a) Rocks versus waves.

b) Catholicism versus Calvinism

c) West versus East.

d) Reason versus emotion

What has Petronella Moens never said about Africans in her utopian novel Aerdenburg?

a) That, after five generations of `breeding’ in Europe, they will become white.

b) That they are fellowmen in need of development.

c) That they are creatures degenerated by climate, way of life and education.

d) That they are Negroes.

In what ways are the female voices in Multatuli’s Max Havelaar not suppressed?

a) In the way Droogstoppel ridicules his wife.

b) In the way the widow Slotering turns mad in trying to protect the Havelaars from ghosts.

c) In the way Max Havelaar condems his wife Tine to the domestic domain.

d) In the way Max Havelaar tells Upi to be content with her lot.

Hella Haasse’s oeuvre did not focus on the emancipation of:

a) Totoks.

b) The poor.

c) Indos.

d) Women.

What does Kartini mean by ‘going into the box’?

a) Seclusion before marriage.

b) Marriage

c) The wedding night

d) Death in labour

After the war, Anne Frank dreamt of becoming:

a. A pilot

b. A historian

c. A journalist

d. A nurse in Palestine

The women used for experiments at the concentration camps were known as:

a. Rats

b. Bunnies

c. Rabbits

d. Guinea pigs

Same-sex marriage became legal in the Netherlands in:

1993.

1997.

2001.

2005.

Butler’s notion of performativity means that:

Gender is a kind of performance or show distinct from our identity.

We construct our gender identities by constantly performing patterns of movement, gesture, speech, etc.

Gender identities emerge through affirmation, which depends on how well we perform our gender roles.

Dolle Mina was a group of:

First-wave feminism.

Second-wave feminism.

Third-wave feminism.

None of the above.

At the end of The Shame is Over Meulenbelt claims that sex ‘just for pleasure’ is:

a. good for everyone.

b. occasionally good.

c. below everyone.

What did Voltaire wish farewell when he left Holland and said: ‘Adieu, canaux, canards, canaille’?

a) Windmills, tulips, and prostitutes.

b) Pancakes, profiteers, and bad weather.

c) Canals, ducks, and thugs.