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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. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Politely.
(b) Totalizing.
(c) Generously.
(d) Reluctantly.

2. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Foundationalism.
(c) Education.
(d) Political action.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

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

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

5. What is Herculine's last name?

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