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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 III, Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?
(a) Men.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Identity.
(d) Children.

2. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Bigoted.
(c) Fair.
(d) Circular.

3. The subject of feminism cannot ground which of the following, according to Butler?
(a) Post-feminist politics.
(b) Masculine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Feminine identity.

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

5. Many feminists say that the idea of "woman" is which of the following?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Not well-defined.
(c) Not concrete.
(d) Well-defined.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?

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

4. Some feminists believe that what is the cultural interpretation of sex?

5. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

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