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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire, Section V, Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?
(a) Metaphysics of determinism.
(b) Metaphysics of bodies.
(c) Metaphysics of substance.
(d) Metaphysics of constraint.

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

3. According to Butler, binary restrictions on sex are constructed to serve which of the following?
(a) Cumpulsory homosexuality.
(b) Voluntary heterosexuality.
(c) Forced homosexuality.
(d) Compulsory heterosexuality.

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

5. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Heterosexuality.
(b) Identity.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second effect of counterexamples of well-defined concepts, as pointed out by Butler?

2. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

3. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

4. Butler suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?

5. Many feminists believe that one must develop which of the following?

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