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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. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Education.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Political action.
(d) Foundationalism.

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

3. What is homoeroticism?
(a) The sexual preference of men for women.
(b) The sexual preference of women for men.
(c) The sexual preference of women for women.
(d) The sexual preference of men for men.

4. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Desire.
(b) Unity.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Trust.

5. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Incoherent.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Intelligible.
(d) Constructed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?

2. What does non-reciprocity relate to?

3. Butler claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?

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

5. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

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