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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. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Elation.
(d) Sexuality.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Herculine argues that the univocal idea of sex serves which of the following?

3. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?

4. Butler suggests that bisexuality is which of the following?

5. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

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