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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. According to Butler, what makes feminist discourse circular?
(a) Lack of constraint.
(b) Lack of clarity.
(c) Lack of men.
(d) Lack of societal mechanism.

2. Butler says that the idea of woman may obscure which of the following?
(a) Fame.
(b) Truth.
(c) Politics.
(d) Beauty.

3. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?
(a) Representation.
(b) Identity.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Solidarity.

4. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Foundationalist.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Antifoundationalist.

5. Butler points out that which of the following is related to entrapping assumptions about identity?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Feminine identity.
(c) Feminist politics.
(d) Unified categories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

2. Butler says the question of which of the following makes women a positive being?

3. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

4. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

5. Irigaray saw women as the negation of which of the following?

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