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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix, Section IV, Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identification.
(d) Incorporation.

2. Gender can be constructed for political reasons to take which of the following actions, according to Gender Trouble?
(a) Oppress.
(b) Support.
(c) Relieve.
(d) Judge.

3. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?
(a) Homosexuals.
(b) Heterosexuals.
(c) Hermaphrodites.
(d) Aesexuals.

4. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Masquerade.
(d) Identification.

5. To understand gender identity, Butler states that we must know which of the following?
(a) Matrix of feminism.
(b) Matrix of gender trouble.
(c) Matrix of feminist politics.
(d) Matrix of ntelligibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that various conflicts and convergences produce shifting of which item?

2. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

3. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

4. To Butler, looking for sexed nature prior to culture is a result of which of the following?

5. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?

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