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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. 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.

2. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Sex.
(d) Faith.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Butler states that women must take which approach?

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

4. What do Beauvoir and Irigaray disagree on?

5. Desires, according to Butler, lead to which of the following?

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