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

2. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?
(a) Social construction.
(b) Substance.
(c) Societal mechanism.
(d) Choice.

3. Butler states that when feminism splits ideas of sex and gender, it also splits which of the following?
(a) Desire.
(b) Trust.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Unity.

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

5. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?
(a) Domination.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?

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

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

4. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?

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

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