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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. Butler presents the idea that sexual nonidentity can be achieved through which of the following?
(a) Homosexual sex.
(b) Heterosexual sex.
(c) Intersexual relations.
(d) Liberation.

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

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

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Woman.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Sexuality.

5. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?
(a) Masculinism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Identity.
(d) Linguistic sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Herculine's last name?

2. According to Butler, coalitions effectively promote which of the following?

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

4. Butler makes the claim that a masquerade denies which of the following?

5. Foucault says that which of the following is problematic?

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