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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. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?
(a) Existence.
(b) Theory.
(c) Language.
(d) Reality.

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

3. What is Herculine's last name?
(a) Barbin.
(b) Barret.
(c) Bortin.
(d) Barstow.

4. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?
(a) Theorists.
(b) Sex.
(c) Social regulations.
(d) Gender.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

5. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?

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