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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. Masks, according to Butler, allow people to refuse to offer which emotion?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Love.

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

3. Butler argues that the distinction between same and other is which of the following?
(a) True.
(b) Debatable.
(c) Misguided.
(d) False.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

2. Butler states that women must take which approach?

3. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

4. What did Foucault create a genealogy of?

5. What type of media did Herculine write?

(see the answer key)

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