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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. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?
(a) Levi-Strauss.
(b) Butler.
(c) Freud.
(d) Lacan.

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

3. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Woman.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

4. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?
(a) An individual who wants to appear mainstream.
(b) A party where people hide their identities.
(c) An individual without an identity.
(d) An individual with loose morals.

5. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Anger.
(b) Love.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

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

3. What type of body does Butler describe as refuting sexual categorization?

4. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?

5. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?

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