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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 claims that the idea of conceiving sex in a concrete way supports which of these?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Domination.
(d) Identity.

2. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?
(a) Reluctantly.
(b) Generously.
(c) Politely.
(d) Totalizing.

3. Butler warns not to use identity as which of the following?
(a) A cause.
(b) An excuse.
(c) A premise.
(d) A reason.

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

5. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?
(a) Foundationalism.
(b) Political action.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is homoeroticism?

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

4. To Butler, worry arises that the idea of which of the following has no meaning?

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

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