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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Structuralists.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Utopians.
(d) Masculinists.

2. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?
(a) Angry revolution.
(b) Poltiical revolution.
(c) Masculine revolution.
(d) Utopian revolution.

3. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) The unconscious.
(b) The maternal.
(c) Gender.
(d) Melancholia.

4. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?
(a) Gender identification.
(b) Unconscious identification.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) Maternal identification.

5. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Homosexuals.
(c) Heterosexuals.
(d) Aesexuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

2. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?

4. What is homoeroticism?

5. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

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