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

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

3. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?
(a) Masculine desire.
(b) Homoeroticism.
(c) Feminine desire.
(d) Homosexuality.

4. Whose theory of language forbids looking for the "being" of gender?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Freud.
(c) Butler.
(d) Levi-Strauss.

5. Butler states that women must take which approach?
(a) Foundationalist.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Antifoundationalist.
(d) Masculine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ontology requires appearance to match which of the following?

2. Herculine argues that the univocal idea of sex serves which of the following?

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

4. According to Lacan, what do women represent?

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

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