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

2. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Concrete.
(c) Intelligible.
(d) Incoherent.

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

4. Butler describes which concept as explanations with more plausibility than taboos?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Identity.
(c) Faith.
(d) Hopelessness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

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

3. Which of the following does Butler think is hard to quantify?

4. Which of the following is a taboo, according to Gender Trouble?

5. Foucault discussed which of the following as being relevant to gender oppression at the hands of politics?

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