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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. Wittig wants which idea to be destroyed?
(a) Gender.
(b) Iden
(c) Sex.
(d) Feminism.

2. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?
(a) How gender is presumed to be the same as sex.
(b) How societal mechanisms create identity.
(c) How sexality is a societal construction.
(d) How gender asymmetry is generated.

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

4. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Woman.
(c) Sex.
(d) Gender.

5. Who does Butler describe as concerning themselves with cultural laws and roles in oppression?
(a) Feminists.
(b) Masculinists.
(c) Utopians.
(d) Structuralists.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?

4. Butler describes incorporation as leading to which of these?

5. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?

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