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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) Relieve.
(b) Oppress.
(c) Support.
(d) Judge.

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

3. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?
(a) Constructed.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Intelligible.

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

5. What do feminist critics often focus on according to Butler?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Unconscious identification.
(c) Gender identification.
(d) Maternal identification.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Irigaray sees dialogue as a manifestation of which of the following?

3. Butler believed that the definition of what word should be permanently deferred?

4. Which of these is described by Butler as adopting incorporation as a mechanism of gender?

5. Levi-Strauss said that which of the following is the beginning of the divide between men and women?

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