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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section V, Reformulating Prohibition as Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory recognizes how the incest taboo works?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Subversion.
(c) Psychoanalytic.
(d) Bisexuality.

2. The process of construction, as described by Butler, is which of the following?
(a) Unified.
(b) False.
(c) Complex.
(d) Simple.

3. Butler claims that sometimes, there is recourse to which of the following?
(a) The maternal.
(b) Gender.
(c) Melancholia.
(d) The unconscious.

4. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Trust.
(b) Unity.
(c) Desire.
(d) Destiny.

5. What does non-reciprocity relate to?
(a) Language.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Cultural laws.
(d) Political oppression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

3. Butler suggests that prohibition of which of the following is related most to sexual desire?

4. Beauvoir thinks that masculine discourse is which of the following?

5. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?

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