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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 suggests that there is mere convention in which field than is supposed?
(a) Chemistry research.
(b) Health and nutrition.
(c) Biological research.
(d) Psychology.

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender asymmetry is generated.
(b) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.

3. Heterosexism in a masquerade is sustained by which of the following, as Butler describes?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Faith.
(c) Reality.
(d) Appearances.

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

5. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) An excuse.
(b) A premise.
(c) A reason.
(d) A cause.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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

5. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?

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