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

2. Butler makes the claim that which concept will probably end up being best understood as a bundle?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gender.
(c) Identity.
(d) Heterosexuality.

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

4. 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 feminist politics.
(b) Disconnected from destiny.
(c) Disconnected from the body.
(d) Disconnected from feminism.

5. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?
(a) Incorporation.
(b) Identity.
(c) Melancholy of gender.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

2. What does the dominance of man express to Butler?

3. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?

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

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

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