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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 suggests that we may be able to speak of what type of person without masculine attributes?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) Heterosexuals.

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

3. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Societal mechanism.
(b) Choice.
(c) Social construction.
(d) Substance.

4. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Identity.
(b) Gender.
(c) Heterosexuality.
(d) Sex.

5. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) A premise.
(c) An excuse.
(d) A cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irigaray's idea of feminine "sex" is described as including which of the following?

2. According to Butler, what can exist outside power discourse?

3. Butler claims that which of these is needed for a point to hold?

4. Without recourse to some idea of power, which does Butler believe cannot be achieved?

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

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