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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. What type of media did Herculine write?
(a) Novels.
(b) Poems.
(c) Journals.
(d) Scripts.

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

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

4. What type of appearance does a masquerade give, according to Butler?
(a) Reality.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Discreet.
(d) Faithful.

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

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. According to Butler, insisting that unity of coalition requires totalizing a set of identity will undermine which of the following?

4. Freud held that which of these was essential to ego formation?

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

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