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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Butler claims that feminists should criticize in which manner?

2. Butler states that if the distinction between sex and gender is pushed too far, the idea of gender becomes of the following?

3. Butler describes feminists as often hoping for which of the following?

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

5. Butler thinkss the definition of gender should be which of the following?

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