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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 IV, Theorizing the Binary, The Unitary, and Beyond.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Butler's thesis is that well-defined and unified categories of women undermine the ability to represent which of the following?
(a) Children.
(b) Politics.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

3. According to Butler, gender differentiates which of the following?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Constructions.
(c) Sexes.
(d) Constraints.

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

5. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Identity.
(b) Masculinism.
(c) Linguistic sexuality.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler describe as always being a part of the language of gender?

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

3. Which is true, according to Foucault?

4. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

5. In Gender Trouble, male-female distinction is compared to which distinction?

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