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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) Freud.
(b) Levi-Strauss.
(c) Butler.
(d) Lacan.

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

3. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?
(a) Non-binary sexuality.
(b) Extreme sexuality.
(c) Secondary sexuality.
(d) Lack of sexuality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

2. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?

3. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

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

5. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?

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