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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?
(a) Existence.
(b) Language.
(c) Theory.
(d) Reality.

2. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?
(a) A root.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) A cause.
(d) An effect.

3. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Beauvoir.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Irigaray.

4. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Generously.
(b) Totalizing.
(c) Reluctantly.
(d) Politely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?

2. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

3. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

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

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