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

2. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?
(a) Ignored.
(b) Closed loosly.
(c) Closed tightly.
(d) Left open.

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

4. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?
(a) Liberal views.
(b) Conservative views.
(c) Liberation views.
(d) Social regulations.

5. Lacan said that there was no direct access to which of the following?
(a) Being.
(b) Existence.
(c) Language.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gender Trouble define a masquerade?

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

5. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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