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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. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?
(a) Woman.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gender.
(d) Identity.

2. Butler describes the distinction between gender and sex as first being used to undermine which of the following?
(a) Future vs. past.
(b) Science vs. religion.
(c) Faith vs. destiny.
(d) Biology vs. destiny.

3. The process of slowly incorporating various attributes is deemed which of the following?
(a) Heteronormative.
(b) Faith.
(c) Gender identification.
(d) Incorporation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler describes language as a tool of which of the following?

3. Who does Butler lean toward in terms of gender asymmetry?

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

5. According to Butler, gender is more an attribute than a what?

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