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

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

3. 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) Representation.
(d) Identity.

4. What type of theories see unusual sexual practices as unintelligible?
(a) Butlerian.
(b) Lacanian.
(c) Kristevan.
(d) Neo-Lacanian.

5. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?
(a) Heterosexual sex.
(b) Intersexual relations.
(c) Homosexual sex.
(d) Liberation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Herculine says that sex is which of the following?

2. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

4. Which adjective best describes Lacan's view of language?

5. What is Herculine's last name?

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