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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Subversive Bodily Acts, Section II, Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Butler says that laws are not mere causes of which of the following?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Repression.
(c) Anger.
(d) Politics.

2. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The vagina.
(b) The phallus.
(c) The children of the earth.
(d) The earth.

3. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?
(a) Being.
(b) Language.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Existence.

4. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How sexality is a societal construction.
(b) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(c) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(d) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.

5. What term does Butler use to describe all sexuality straying from social laws?
(a) Pregenital.
(b) Postfeminist.
(c) Prefeminist.
(d) Postgenital.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Butler, the XY female poses problems to what type of categories?

2. Which of the following adjectives does Butler use to describe oppression?

3. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

4. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

5. Kristeva seems to understand the semiotic in what kinds of terms?

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