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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. According to Butler, culture separation obscures which of the following?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Difficulties.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Identity.

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

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

4. What did Levi-Strauss consider the totality and closure of?
(a) Feminism.
(b) Utopian society.
(c) Oppression.
(d) Language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler insists that unity is not necessary for which to be effective?

2. On what issues do Lacan, Riviere, and Freud differ?

3. Butler claims that women are often identified with which of the following terms?

4. Butler makes the claim that what type of genders produce coherence and continuity?

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

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