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

2. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?
(a) Intersexed.
(b) Heterosexual.
(c) Homosexual.
(d) Maternal.

3. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) False.
(c) Debatable.
(d) Misguided.

4. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Gender roles.
(d) Feminism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

2. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

3. What is Herculine's last name?

4. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

5. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

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