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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. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Faithful.
(c) Reality.
(d) Discreet.

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

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

4. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Faith.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

2. Butler describes all sexuality as being constructed within which of the following?

3. Which of the following did Foucault critique?

4. Which is true, according to Foucault?

5. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

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