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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 VI, Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Liberation.
(c) Masculinity.
(d) Feminism.

3. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of feminist politics.
(b) Matrix of ntelligibility.
(c) Matrix of feminism.
(d) Matrix of gender trouble.

4. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Politely.
(b) Reluctantly.
(c) Totalizing.
(d) Generously.

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 says that feminist theory often looks for what type of person?

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?

3. Which of the following describes power structures as Butler sees them?

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

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

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