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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. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Utopian society.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Language.

2. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A reason.
(b) An excuse.
(c) A cause.
(d) A premise.

3. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?
(a) Disconnected from the body.
(b) Disconnected from feminism.
(c) Disconnected from feminist politics.
(d) Disconnected from destiny.

4. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?
(a) Forbidding incest.
(b) Allowing women to have an education.
(c) Allowing incest.
(d) Forbidding women to breastfeed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes which of these as not being inevitable?

2. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

3. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

4. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

5. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?

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