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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. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Masculinism.
(c) Identity.
(d) Linguistic sexuality.

2. Butler suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?
(a) Health and nutrition.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Biological research.
(d) Chemistry research.

3. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Novels.
(b) Scripts.
(c) Poems.
(d) Journals.

4. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Irigaray.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Beauvoir.

5. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Tolerant.
(c) Controlling.
(d) Misleading.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

3. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

4. Butler believes that coalitions should be which of the following?

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

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