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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. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Incest.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Gender.

2. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?
(a) High intelligence.
(b) Good intentions.
(c) Bad intentions.
(d) Low intelligence.

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

4. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Difficulties.
(c) Identity.
(d) Revolution.

5. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Faith.
(c) Hopelessness.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are theories referred to that produce ideas of social mechanisms of power?

2. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?

3. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

4. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

5. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

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