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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 societal mechanisms create identity.
(b) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(c) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(d) How sexality is a societal construction.

2. According to Lacan, what do women represent?
(a) The earth.
(b) The vagina.
(c) The phallus.
(d) The children of the earth.

3. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?
(a) Being.
(b) Language.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Existence.

4. What is Herculine's last name?
(a) Barret.
(b) Bortin.
(c) Barbin.
(d) Barstow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?

2. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?

3. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

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

5. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

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